There were no laboratory tests or any other evidence that a new, novel, never-seen-before virus was the agent of disease. The much touted genetic sequences came from a single patient who was declared to have COVID-19 without proof or evidence. On January 23, 2020, Christian Drosten's team published a protocol to test for COVID-19/ SARS-CoV-2 virus using the PCR test, but the test protocol "was designed in absence of available virus isolates or original patient specimens." The tests were based on simply downloading the hypothetical sequences — no virus required!! A number of papers were published claiming to have used isolated and purified SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, but the authors later acknowledged that they never had purified particles. -GEG