Snopes says: Mostly False

February 19, 2020

Please, can we just stop with this nonsense now?

Claim

Author Dean Koontz predicted the 2020 new coronavirus outbreak in his 1981 novel “The Eyes of Darkness.”

Rating

Mostly False

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What’s True

An image shows a genuine page from Dean Koontz’s novel “The Eyes of Darkness” containing the words “Wuhan-400.”

What’s False

However, Dean Koontz did not predict an outbreak of a new coronavirus. Other than the name, this fictional biological weapon has little in common with the virus that caused an outbreak in 2020.

Read the full article, which even talks about Gorki-400, @ Snopes.com