“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.”
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Claim dated 28 Feb 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
In short
This claim spread on social media around 28 February 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 11 March 2020, 12 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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