According to Netizens, a TV show on Netflix, predicted the coronavirus pandemic back in 2018.
Tweets claim that the 53rd minute of the 10th episode of Korean series ‘My Secret Terrius’, which was released in 2018, mentions the deadly illness, which in recent times is being called the COVID-19 outbreak.
One of our community members also asked us to verify the claim.
Stop what you’re doing right now…. Go on Netflix… type in My Secret Terrius, go to Season 1, episode 10 and skip to 53 minutes. it’s kind of suspicious.This series came in 2018 and the first reported case of Coronavirus was in Nov 2019.#ChineseVirusCorona #ChineseWuhanVirus pic.twitter.com/KEpx8Au6fU
â Aditya Singh (@aditya_xing) March 27, 2020
In the drama My Secret Terrius that was released in 2018 (UNIQ’s sungjoo was among the cast) they talked in details about the corona virus…. I had goosebumps… pic.twitter.com/nuQ3UYZlMR
â ð¦ (@eoeoes) March 18, 2020
My Secret Terrius, Season 1, Ep.10Netflix Skip to 53 before they pull this down.This will send a shiver down your spine.#ChineseVirus19Thanks for the video @akanxabisht! pic.twitter.com/cYBhC3ReAY
â A La Vile De Satara (@AdvancedMaushi) March 26, 2020
This is a South Korea Movie,Shot in 2018Title: ‘My Secret Terrius’ This movie Predicted the Corona Virus Pandemic and Got it Right 100%! No.. this can’t be Coincidence, Some set of people are Controlling this Universe scientifically.Let’s be Careful!! pic.twitter.com/SR0Ux0nm72
â Shadrack Amonoo Crabe (HumbleGangstaðâð¨) (@Gedio10) March 26, 2020
CORONA EPISODE … Please see this… not just a random forward…Stop what you’re doing right now…. Go on Netflix… type in My Secret Terrius, go to Season 1, episode 10 and skip to 53 minutes ð³ actually freaked me out!!Share because I guarantee this will be taken down… pic.twitter.com/pkj0sXfMvY
â SHAKTHI SHREEDHAR (@SHAKTHISHREEDH2) March 26, 2020
In one of the scenes from the show, a doctor can be heard saying: ‘The coronavirus attacks the respiratory system,’ hinting that some people were trying to use the muted virus as a biological weapon.
‘What’s more serious is that the coronavirus has an incubation period of two to 14 days.’
‘This virus was manipulated to attack the lungs directly within just five minutes of being exposed,’ she further says.
On being asked if there’s a cure, she responds: ‘There’s no cure or vaccine available at the moment.’
‘Stop what you’re doing right now…. Go on Netflix… type in My Secret Terrius, go to Season 1, episode 10 and skip to 53 minutes. it’s kind of suspicious. This series came in 2018 and the first reported case of Coronavirus was in Nov 2019,’ reads one such viral tweet.
In an eerie similarity, children in the show are also taught how to wash hands properly in order to prevent contraction.
The synopsis of the South Korean show reads, ‘A secret agent who detaches himself from the world after a failed operation tries to unravel the mystery behind a neighbour’s death.’
A doctor hands over some documents to another character, telling her, ‘We must do more research, but it looks like a mutant coronavirus.’
The other character responds: ‘Corona? Then MERS?’
‘MERS, SARS, the common flu. They all fall in the same gene family with the same gene information. The coronavirus attacks the respiratory system. During the 2015 MERS epidemic, the mortality rate was over 20 percent,’ says the doctor.
The first season of My Secret Terrius ended with a doctor getting a disease similar to COVID-19.
Claim:
Netflix show ‘My Secret Terrius’ predicted the Coronavirus pandemic in 2018.
Fact Check:
The claim is misleading.
In the video clip that is being circulated, the doctor lists out some features of the ‘fictional’ novel coronavirus. These features in contrary to what is now known about the SARS-CoV-2 (the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19).
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According to the doctor the virus had been artificially mutated by a human, bringing the mortality rate to ‘almost 90%.’
The current COVID-19 pandemic has claimed 27,365 lives out of 597,268 infected individuals at the time of writing this article, therefore the mortality rate is about 4.5%.
According to peer-reviewed articles (Zhou et. al (2020); Andersen et. al (2020)), there are two potential origins of the virus.
Firstly, the virus went through natural selection in an animal (currently the progenitor host is theorised to be a bat or a pangolin), before going through zoonotic transfer (transfer of pathogens between animals and humans), and jumping into a human host.
Secondly, the virus jumped into a human host from an animal, while going through re-assortment of its genetic make-up that could lead it to acquire the properties to start a pandemic.
No evidence about the fact that the virus is man-made artificially made in a lab has been found, yet.
Therefore, the show couldn’t have predicted the outbreak of coronavirus back in 2018. It is noteworthy to mention here that …
