Fact Check: Did 'My Secret Terrius' episode 10 on Netflix predict coronavirus outbreak?

As soon as outbreak of coronavirus became a global pandemic, re have been many posts and rumours flying in social media about moments in history, literature and entertainment that predicted that Coronavirus will be a part of 2020. In yet ar such rumour, people on Twitter have w claimed that a Korean drama had predicted coronavirus. This drama is called My Secret Terrius and was released in 2018. It is important to kw wher this is fake news on real news. 

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Korean drama predicted Coronavirus?

Claim:

Twitterati came across a scene in Korean drama My Secret Terrius where a character is being told about a coronavirus. In scene, character asks about virus and doctor says that it is a respiratory disease. She also said that it comes under same gene information of MERS and SARS. While MERS had a mortality rate of 20%, this coronavirus has a mortality rate of 90%. Here is a tweet shared by a person that talks about scene. It comes at My Secret Terrius episode 10 minute 53:

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Rating: Mixture

What is true: show talks about a coronavirus. doctor in show also discusses that virus is fatal. She says that it has cure or vaccine.

What is false: re is prediction about COVID-19 and that it will spread in 2020. virus in show is also man-made and genetically mutated. On or hand, re is evidence that COVID-19 was man-made. 

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Origin:

Tweets about show My Secret Terrius, a Korean Drama, spread across all social media and claimed that it is predicting coronavirus that is affecting world w, COVID-19. show, on or hand, talks about existence of a type of coronavirus, but it does t name this one in particular. re are several different kinds of coronaviruses in existence, out of which 7 affect humans. show seems to be referring to a fictional variant.

characters later come to kw that this virus is used by an anti-humanity group to harm human beings. This conspiracy is also named as Cors Project. One of characters talks about how it is being used to have a biochemical terrorist attack on countries.  Corona disease in show is a type of virus, but it is purely fictional. Coronavirus in show is being used a bioweapon and it is a mutated virus which is man-made. COVID-19 has been proved to be a natural, t a man-made, virus. re is proof that it is a bioweapon of any kind.  show also talks about how re is a 90% mortality rate because of mutation and it attacks lungs within 5 minutes of exposure. COVID-19, on or hand, is reported by a leading British publication to likely have a mortality rate of 1 % or lower, according to  UK’s chief medical officer, Chris Whitty. 

Since this rumour has started taking a seat on many social media portals, people have been on internet, searching for same. As per Google trends, re was a sudden spike in searches on March 24 after 9.30 am. While this tumbled down soon eugh, it again gained impetus furr in day. People also started searching about show's availability in various countries and also about episode.

Source: Google Trends

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