Longtime lurker, never posted before but I found some interesting things last night.
It seems there are multiple patents when it comes to the Corona virus/covid-19 pandemic.
US 2006:
Patent No. US2006257852
Title: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus
owned by Glaxo-Smith Kline
http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&s1=20060257852.PN.&OS=PN/20060257852&RS=PN/20060257852
Europe 2016:
Patent No. EP3172319B1
Title: Coronavirus
Topic: a corona virus vaccine
This patent, which was applied for in 2016, was approved in november 2019. A month before the Corona virus outbreak!
How can you patent a vaccine before the actual disease?
One more thing, looking at the family of patents one can see a plethora of corona patents of which almost all of them are owned by Pirbright institute in GB. Is it a coincidence that Pirbright institute is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation?
https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/051494985/publication/EP3172319B1?q=ep3172319B1
I hope this helps!