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I think the first response to that other posting summarizes neatly why it should remain flagged while this one shouldn’t:

> Given the extraordinary nature of the claims, the fact that this didn't see any peer review and isn't published in a real journal as well as the clear political motivations of the money behind the study […]

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To me, in this letter to editor, the same story was talked again as in the flagged PDF, in a more succinct writing style. I do not see why one is published and not flagged while the other one remains flagged.

This one possibly should be flagged instead. See here about the codons of the cleavage site: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1391507230848032772.html

This author has a PhD in chemical physics and has previously published peer-reviewed studies on SARS-CoV-2[1]. The ACS is also a reputable journal.

The previous source was not written by a domain expert, was not published in a peer-reviewed journal, and had (as others have pointed out) obvious political conflicts of interest that made it fundamentally untrustworthy.

[1]: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5102-4294

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