Claim: "Every election year has a disease" ... SARS in 2004; avian flu in 2008; swine flu in 2010; MERS in 2012; Ebola in 2014 and 2018; Zika in 2016 and the coronavirus in 2020.
Fact-check: A pandemic for every election year? Wrong
Verdict: false
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Emily Venezky
Date published: 2020-03-11T00:00:00