"On the other hand, patent applications are published 18 months after they have been filed. During that period the application is confidential to the patent office. Thus, we will have to wait until the second half of 2021 to find out if there is a Wuhan coronavirus patent application. In 2003, when the SARS-CoV virus was discovered, several institutions were quick to unilaterally file patent applications for the total or partial sequence of the coronavirus genome".
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Coronavirus is the umbrella term for the supposed virus - or rather a very real set of viruses, which encapsulate covid-19/Sars-COV2.
Coronavirus is the kind of virus it is, delineating it from things like Influenza etc.
Influenza is an Orthomyxoviridae virus which is RNA negative-sense.
Coronavirus is an Orthocoronavirinae virus which is RNA positive-sense.
Patent or not, Coronavirus is just the type it is.
The SARS ourbreak in 2002-2004 was caused by the SARS-CoV-1 virus. SARS-CoV-1 was previously known as SARS-CoV. COVID-19 is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. They are both corona viruses. SARS-CoV-1 was patented. The common cold is also a corona virus.
You've got the last but slightly wrong. Traditionally the 'common cold' us Rhinovirus but the illness known as the "Common Cold" can be caused by: Rhinovirus, Coronavirus, RSV, and parainfluenza.
Psst...actually EVERY lab manufacturing COVID-19 tests are using the sequence/testing control parameters from the CDC period.
umm, yes, it is patented as sars-cov-2... it was started in Ft. Dietrich, shut down by congress, and Fuckie had it moved to wuhan, chose the professor to oversee it's development and had the research materials sent there. This has already been a part of disclosure... early on.