“If you’ve gotten flu shots during the past ten years, you will test positive for the Wuhan strain of the Covid-19 flu.”
Social media posts
Facebook. Claim dated 17 Apr 2020.
FactCheck.org rated thisFalse
What FactCheck.org found
The Food and Drug Administration says this hasn’t been observed in any authorized tests, and vaccine and infectious disease experts explain there is no cross-reaction between influenza and the novel coronavirus.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 17 April 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 19 May 2020, 32 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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