Coronavirus was predicted 39 years ago in the book 'End of Days' written by Sylvia Browne published in the year 1981.

Google's book library and World Health Organization prove that the book was published 12 years ago and the Virus outbreak was not predicted before.

Google's book library and World Health Organization prove that the book was published 12 years ago and the Virus outbreak was not predicted before.The book 'End of days' written by Sylvia Browne available in Google E-book website shows that the book was first published in the year 2008. It was claimed by her in the book that in around 2020 a respiratory illness would spread across the globe, attacking the lungs and the bronchial tubes which will be resisting all known treatments. However, the claim says coronavirus was predicted 39 years ago when there was another book published named 'Eyes of Darkness' by Dean Koontz released in February 1981 where the author mentioned a similar virus named Wuhan-400, but the description of that virus is not similar to that of the COVID 19.

Upon doing research, we found that since the outbreak of SARS in 2002 and 2003, doctors and scientists have warned that new strains of the coronavirus family would threaten to emerge in the future. A news release by the World Health Organization on 5 July 2003 stated that coronavirus, a large family of viruses, could be a seasonal disease which may still be in the environment and could ignite a new outbreak. Some experts cautioned that these viruses might even lay low for several years before reappearing. Also, the WHO website stated that the coronavirus outbreak was first reported from Wuhan, China, on 31 December 2019.

Thus we can conclude that the claim is false as Sylvia Browne's book was published in 2008, and her prediction about the outbreak of the virus has been refuted by the doctors and scientists.

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