Claim: A book published in 1981 said that in 2020 a severe pneumonia-like illness would spread across the world, and calling it "Wuhan-400".
Fact-check: These quotes "predicting" coronavirus are from two different books - Full Fact
Verdict: these lines are from two different books: one is from a book of predictions by a psychic published in 2008 that predicted a pneumonia-like illness, and "wuhan-400" is a fictional disease from a sci-fi book published in 1981 that bears little similarity to the new wuhan coronavirus.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Grace Rahman
Date published: 2020-02-27T00:00:00