{"id":26354,"date":"2020-01-23T11:27:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T00:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=26354"},"modified":"2024-06-26T05:36:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T19:36:32","slug":"sars-virus-patent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=26354","title":{"rendered":"SARS Virus Patent"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" class=\"wp-image-26355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/SARS_Virus_Patent-1.jpg\" alt=\"SARS Virus Patent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/SARS_Virus_Patent-1.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/SARS_Virus_Patent-1-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Chris Kirckof posted:<br \/>&#8220;So let me get this straight about this virus<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>It\u2019s &#8216;new&#8217; yet it was lab created and patented in 2015 (in development since 2003).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The patent expired today, on the day the first case is announced in the US.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The patent also tells us the CDC helped make this! \u201cThis invention was made by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an agency of the United States Government. Therefore, the U.S. Government has certain rights in this invention.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>And now magically a vaccine is in the works for it already? Yet the patent in 2015 already references a vaccine for it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>But what do I know? I\u2019m just a conspiracy theorist.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/US7220852<\/div>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Kirckof posted:&#8220;So let me get this straight about this virus It\u2019s &#8216;new&#8217; yet it was lab created and patented in 2015 (in development since 2003). The patent expired today, on the day the first case is announced in the US. The patent also tells us the CDC helped make this! \u201cThis invention was made &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=26354\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SARS Virus Patent&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50614,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26354\/revisions\/50614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}