> Makes you wonder wtf Chinese virology labs were doing for 20 years with coronavirus if they weren't working on a cure, doesn't it? (There's 40 labs total acro

> Makes you wonder wtf Chinese virology labs were doing for 20 years with coronavirus if they weren't working on a cure, doesn't it? (There's 40 labs total across China.) Like most things in a command economy, they worked on whatever was a political priority. I'd hazard to guess it wasn't a priority in the intervening years for the same reason there was little free market incentive to address it: yes, it's bad when it happens, but it doesn't happen that often. Ergo, they were probably just as starved of resources. The preexisting US effort was mostly funded through DARPA for the same reasons. https://www.darpa.mil/our-research https://www.darpa.mil/our-research (e.g. ADEPT, P3, Prometheus, PREPARE)