Isn't it a little strange that no vaccine was needed for SARS-CoV?
Governments around the world could have been "working on a vaccine" for the past 17 years, but they just sat on their hands.
SARS-CoV, the virus that caused SARS, which was first identified in 2003
MERS-CoV, the virus that caused Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), which was first identified in 2012
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, which was first identified in 2019