How did Richard A. Rothschild apply for a Patent on a Test for COVID-19 on 10-13-2015 when COVID-19 didn’t exist yet?

Here’s a link to the Patent Application – HERE

Check out the dates!

So how do you apply, in 2015, for a Patent for a testing system on a disease almost four years before the disease had even been named?

Just wondering is all . . . 

Source: halturnerradioshow.com