In the fall of 2002, the US National Security Agency began hearing “chatter” regarding a new serious respiratory infection in the Guangdong province of China and by the winter of 2002–2003 an alarming new disease, SARS, was making headlines worldwide. it was not until 24 March 2003, that the US CDC and Hong Kong announced that they had isolated a new Coronavirus from a SARS patient [7], and the virus received its name, SARS-CoV. SARS, similar to SARS-CoV-2, originated in the Republic of China with evidence that while it most likely originated in bats, entered the human population through intermediate hosts, most likely the ‘Himalayan palm civet’ (Paguma larvata) and the raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) [8]. Thanks to the use of a massive international effort headed by the World Health Organisation (WHO), of case identification, isolation (quarantine), treatment, and contact tracing the SARS outbreak ended only a few months (July 2003), after it began and there has not been a documented SARS infection since 2004. In total, there were approximately 8096 probably cases in 29 countries and 774 deaths from the SARS outbreak.