This isn't my focus, but my understanding is that there's a difference between researching SARS-CoV viruses and SARS-CoV-2 viruses.

(related link: https://theintercept.com/2021/09/06/new-details-emerge-about... )

Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28500246

Editorialized and misleading title. More anti-vax propaganda. They’re really hiding it what with the article being posted on nih.gov and all. HN should be better than this.

Let me summarize the study: “We deleted a protein from a different virus and made it less dangerous, thus showing that the protein is important.”