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Academics: The spike glycoprotein of the new coronavirus 2019-nCoV contains a furin-like cleavage site absent in CoV of the same clade, 10 February 2020
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Paper by academics on COVID-19. This paper was made available between SAGE meetings 5 to 8 in February 2020, but not considered or discussed in a meeting. This paper is the assessment of the evidence at the time of writing. As new evidence or data emerges, SAGE updates its advice accordingly.
These documents are released as pre-print publications that have provided the government with rapid evidence during an emergency. These documents have not been peer-reviewed and there is no restriction on authors submitting and publishing this evidence in peer-reviewed journals.
Published 10 February 2020