1. We live in a Shadowrun alt-canon 2. In the Shadowrun universe, VITAS was engineered by immortal elves 3. Coronavirus was engineered by immortal elves
Not that I know of. It's based on my theory that we live in a simulation run for entertainment by people in the future for the sake of running a game or scenario of Shadowrun, the popular pen and paper RPG: only naturally our own version of Shadowrun in not equal to theirs.