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goggle, DID NOVEL PREDICT VIRUS? A Dean Koontz novel written in 1981 predicted the outbreak of the coronavirus! wrote Nick Hinton who posted the original screenshot on Twitter back on Feb. 15. DOG TESTS 'WEAK POSITIVE' FOR CORONAVIRUS IN HONG KONG, FIRST POSSIBLE INFECTION IN PET People on Twitter who replied to his post called Koontz's prediction creepy, with one user asking to cue the Twilight Zone music please. People noted how the plot of the book calls the Wuhan virus the perfect weapon that could wipe out a city or country.
goggle - That's crazy. He probably didn't have a clue when he was writing it, another user wrote. Unfortunately for conspiracy theorists out there, it appears that similarities between the originated COVID-19 and the virus prediction by Koontz stop at the Wuhan name. SOME CALIFORNIA HEALTH WORKERS HELD IN ISOLATION, QUARANTINE AFTER EXPOSURE TO CORONAVIRUS PATIENT, OFFICIALS SAY Dean Koontz's 1981 thriller The Eyes of Darkness describes a deadly virus called Wuhan-400, named after the Chinese city it originated from, and the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak that's infected over 82,000 people in 48 countries so far. (Photo by Rick Loomis/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
goggle, SOME CALIFORNIA HEALTH WORKERS HELD IN ISOLATION, QUARANTINE AFTER EXPOSURE TO CORONAVIRUS PATIENT, OFFICIALS SAY In the book, the Wuhan-400 was man-made and developed in labs outside the city -- which differs from COVID-19, reportedly originating in animals, according to the World Health Organization. It also described the fatality rate of the Wuhan-400 as having a 100 percent fatality rate, compared to the roughly 2 percent rate of the coronavirus CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE
goggle - A Google Books Preview also showed the name of the virus in the original 1981 copy was called Gorki-400, according to the daily examiner. The paper noted the book changed the location of the virus to Wuhan in 1996. It's not clear if Koontz made the decision to make the change.
goggle - Left trying to panic Americans over coronavirus in order to smear Trump. Laura Ingraham addressed the biggest lies told by critics of President Trump and his administration over the coronavirus outbreak Thursday, starting with the accusation that Vice President Mike Pence isn't qualified to manage the coronavirus task force. Now, these attacks are so pathetic, they're almost not worth dignifying with a response. They really just hate the fact that Mike Pence is pro-life, that he doesn't believe in enabling drug users, Ingraham said on The Ingraham Angle responding to critics of Pence. Basically, that he's not a liberal because all those liberal governors are doing such a great job with their states crisis.