Several researchers got ahead of the SARS-2 curve by adjusting what they already had in the pipeline for SARS-1.

America had biologists working in China with these very people - until Trump withdrew them in his anti-China spat.
Draw your own comclusion.

China doesn't mess around with stuff like this the way trump does... They mean business ..

They will use things before they are proven safe that and they aren't driven by profit before everything like trump

Perhaps medicine can advance more quickly when one isn't concerned by pesky things like "informed consent"?

Or, to be fair, maybe they really do have a larger supply of informed, consenting test subjects who got the beejeezus scared out of them by COVID Round One, and are eager to prevent Round Two.

Hell, I'd consent to being a test subject, if anyone would have me. Seems like the civic-minded thing to do.

From what I've read, they were working pretty closely with W.H.O. to find a solution. Maybe China's leader is not making snarky little remarks about the organization, but practicing a method Trump doesn't understand called COOPERATION. [news.un.org]