trailThe WIV held undisclosed bat coronaviruses more similar to SARS-CoV-2 than those it published
The WIV possessed or had access to a bat coronavirus sufficiently similar to SARS-CoV-2 to serve as an engineering backbone
The WIV possessed unpublished bat coronavirus sequences that it did not disclose
The WIV took its bat virus sequence database offline in September 2019 and never republished it
assumed
The WIV possessed RaTG13, a bat coronavirus that was the closest known relative of SARS-CoV-2 at the time of the outbreak
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The WIV held undisclosed bat coronaviruses more similar to SARS-CoV-2 than those it published
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