The coronavirus is not patented.

The coronavirus ISOLATED FROM HUMANS is patented.
Link: https://patents.google.com/patent/US7776521B1/en?oq=US7776521B1

They didn't MAKE the virus and patent it.
They DISCOVERED THE VIRUS and patented WHAT THEY HAD ISOLATED.
The reason they did that was to GUARD AGAINST BIOWARFARE.

Viruses are not living things. While it's true that you can't patent living things are they exist in nature, you CAN patent PARTS things found in nature that were created by humans.

Do you know what a coronavirus patent is?
It's a patent for the GENETIC MATERIAL isolated in a laboratory.'
The genetic material of a virus does not exist in nature as it exists once isolated.

The CDC patented only the GENETIC MATERIAL that was REMOVED from the rest of the virus.
Another kind of virus as it exists in nature.