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Originally Posted by Faust
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Extreme sensationalism (I know you're just quoting the headline, but that's what it is). First, it's not a COVID-19 strain; it's two pangolin coronavirus strains that were collected and identified pre-pandemic in 2017 and 2019. Secondly, they weren't "crafted" so to speak. They were cultured in a lab (again pre-pandemic) and then naturally occurring mutations were studied in mice. Those are totally normal processes in studying viruses.