During a portion of an interview with ABC News aired on Tuesday's broadcast of ABC's "Nightline," former Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response during the Trump administration Dr. Bob Kadlec, one of the authors of a report on the origins of the coronavirus released by Senate Republicans earlier this week, stated that an application for a patent for a coronavirus vaccine on February 24, 2020 is a clear clue that China had the COVID virus genome back in November of 2019 and that this patent application wasn't the first one.