According to documents obtained by The Australian’s Sharri Markson (4 June 2021), Chinese military scientist Zhou Yusen, who specialised in coronavirus research and was funded by US NIH( separate to EcoHealth alliance funding), filed for COVID vaccine patent in February 2020. He mysteriously died May 2020, just 3 month later. [1, 2]

Filing a patent in this time frame, Flinders University researcher Nikolai Petrovsky noted was a “remarkable achievement“, raising questions as to when the genetic sequence of SARS-CoV-2 was first known.