{"article":{"id":299097,"heading":"Coronavirus Patents?","author":"johnk","created":"2020-03-20 14:36:20","modified":"2020-03-20 14:36:20","last_modified":"Fri, 20 Mar 2020 21:36:20","article":"<p>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. <br><br> 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. <br><br> 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. <br><br> The patents I found referenced were: <br><br> US Patent Number 10,130,701 <br>  <br> <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.justia.com\/patent\/10130701\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/patents.justia.com\/patent\/10130701<\/a> <br><br> US Patent Number US7220852B1 <br>  <br> <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/US7220852B1\/en\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/US7220852B1\/en<\/a> <br><br> US Patent Number US20170216427A1 <br>  <br> <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/US20170216427A1\/en\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/US20170216427A1\/en<\/a> <br><br> All we learn from these patents is that gene sequences are patentable, and weakened viruses are patentable.<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Explaining a little bit about the patents, which are not evidence that coronavirus was manufactured.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2020\/03\/299097.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}