The U.S. Didn't Predict Coronavirus 9 Years Ago
The Claim
The United States predicted the novel Coronavirus 9 years ago, and the proof is the film Contagion.
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Emerging story
Several Arab news websites published a story about the United States' prediction of the Coronavirus 9 years ago, based on the film Contagion.
The claim was also posted on Arab social media pages and groups.
Misbar’s Analysis
Misbar’s team traced the origin of the story from an article in the Daily Mail, in which they reported about the similarity observed by some watchers of the film Contagion between the outbreak of the novel Coronavirus in China and the story of the film produced in 2011 that talks about an epidemic that has swept the world and the efforts of medical research centers to find a cure for it.
There’s also an obvious difference between talking about the similarities between the story of the film and the spread of the Coronavirus. The claim that the U.S. predicted the Coronavirus 9 years ago based on this film, as the title of the claim suggests, does not exist in the film.
