“Johns Hopkins University has foreseen a pandemic occurring in 2025”
What FACTLY found
The John Hopkins Center for Health Security published this report in 2017, intending it for self-guided exercises to examine potential challenges that could arise in a pandemic. However, this report has been misinterpreted as forecasting a potential outbreak in 2025. Comparable pandemic readiness scenarios were also developed in the past
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 1 October 2023. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 27 October 2023, 26 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
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This check was done by FACTLY, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.