evidence: • The idea that the virus was patented derives from a misreading of documents and confusion between the name of the virus that causes COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) and the name of the virus that causes SARS (SARS-CoV). [...] The article goes on to say that whatever is causing COVID-19 was actually manufactured in a laboratory and was patented "years ago." [...] Reuters examined a video that claimed to show two patents for SARS-CoV-2 filed in 2004 and 2015 — proof that the virus had been known well before the pandemic started in 2019, and had somehow been kept hidden in a secret plot.