Problem is that coronavirus is a class of virus, in reality it's coronaviruses, plural, the are known since the 60's and their origin is unknown. Most of them are harmless https://poal.co/s/Health/141939 As far as I know, gates doesn't have a patent on "2019-nCoV" 2019 for date, "n" as in "n number" I guess, and CoV for CoronaVirus That's what makes a vaccine against all coronaviruses impossible I think, the changes from one strain to another renders the vaccine approach almost pointless Now back to the article, from ZH's comment section, this https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871v1 >>"We found 4 insertions in the spike glycoprotein (S) which are unique to the 2019-nCoV and are not present in other coronaviruses. Importantly, amino acid residues in all the 4 inserts have identity or similarity to those in the HIV-1...The finding of 4 unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV, all of which have identity /similarity to amino acid residues in key structural proteins of HIV-1 is **unlikely to be fortuitous in nature**. " ... Yeah... That's what it says