Claim: Two authors predicted the coronavirus decades before the outbreak.
Fact-check: Here's what the books that "predicted" the Covid-19 coronavirus actually say - Full Fact
Verdict: a 1980s sci-fi novel describes a disease called "wuhan-400" that bears little similarity to the new wuhan coronavirus. a book of "prophecies about the end of the world" written in 2008 predicted that a pneumonia-like illness would spread across the world in the year 2020.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Grace Rahman
Date published: 2020-02-21T00:00:00