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Around this same time, Dr. Andersen shared his concerns regarding the possibility the
COVID-19 pandemic was the result of a lab leak and that it had properties that may have been
genetically modified or engineered—specifically the furin cleavage site—with Dr. Holmes.50
According to Dr. Holmes, Dr. Andersen texted, “Eddie, can we talk? I need to be pulled off a
ledge here.”
Dr. Andersen went on to express concerns regarding two distinct aspects of the virus—the
RBD and the furin cleavage site. Dr. Andersen also found a paper written by Dr. Baric and Dr.
Shi [hereinafter “Baric/Shi Paper”] that purported to have inserted furin cleavage sites into
SARS. As recounted by Dr. Farrar, this paper was a “how-to-manual for building the Wuhan
coronavirus in a laboratory.”52 Dr. Holmes responded, “fuck, this is bad” and “oh my god what
worse words than that.”
On January 30, 2020, Dr. Holmes relayed Dr. Andersen’s concerns to Dr. Farrar via his
burner phone.54 Dr. Andersen recalled Dr. Holmes saying that Dr. Farrar acted as Dr. Holmes’
“handler.”55 Then, as Dr. Holmes characterized it, the conversations went from “zero to 100.”