Coronavirus Patents?

by johnk Friday, Mar. 20, 2020 at 2:36 PM

Explaining a little bit about the patents, which are not evidence that coronavirus was manufactured.

There's an idea circulating around the epidemic minimizer and conspiracy theorist milieus, that the coronavirus, SARC-CoV-2 also called the COVID-19 virus, was lab-made, or that the vaccine already exists.

They state that patents exist for the virus, that they are "patented", implying that the virus was manufactured. Some suggest that Bill Gates has a patent for a vaccine, perhaps because he's associated with a vaccination project.

The patents are for gene sequences from the coronavirus that caused the SARS epidemic, and attenuated coronavirii for SARS and for avian infectious bronchitis virus. Attenuated virus is a weakened virus, that is used in a vaccine.

The patents I found referenced were:

US Patent Number 10,130,701

https://patents.justia.com/patent/10130701

US Patent Number US7220852B1

https://patents.google.com/patent/US7220852B1/en

US Patent Number US20170216427A1

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20170216427A1/en

All we learn from these patents is that gene sequences are patentable, and weakened viruses are patentable.

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