That is more complicated than it seems on the surface. Due to mutations there are a number of variations of the coronavirus; we have been subject to the coronavirus 'family' for some time.
This leads to the question of whether CoViD-19 was engineered - a perilous question. The current version of the virus is particularly predatory for humans - a long way from a bat virus. HOWEVER, is CoViD-19 as deadly as we are being led to believe? ...the crux of the controversy.
Part of the problem is the reliance on the opinions of medical people. Medical people see all the worst cases. They don’t see the mild cases. They don’t see the ones that don’t get it. It creates a skewing of reality. That’s why medical people should have never had the final say in the shutdown.