Given that this line is from a cell culture, wouldn’t the simpler explanation be that the virus has this sequence because it was replicated in that specific Moderna culture lineage? This would be a particularly useful…
> dismissing the RaTG13 results claiming that they were just put into the database after people started questioning To be fair, that sequence came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology
Given that this line is from a cell culture, wouldn’t the simpler explanation be that the virus has this sequence because it was replicated in that specific Moderna culture lineage? This would be a particularly useful…
> dismissing the RaTG13 results claiming that they were just put into the database after people started questioning To be fair, that sequence came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology