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798 - COVID, Innovation, and Optimism with Matt Ridley

The James Altucher Show

Is Mother Nature a Better Genetic Engineer Than Will Ever Be?

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Two years after the first case of sars, we still haven't found it in any other virus. The fearin cleavage site is insertion into a key point in the spike gean. It's effectively what makes this virus capable of infecting lots of different types of cells very efficiently. Without it, this varus would not be able to maintain a pandemic. We don't know whether they did it, but they were looking to juice up varuses to be able to study them more easily.

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