The book also says “It afflicts only human beings. As far as we know (although the conspiracy nuts will try claiming otherwise) COVID-19 is a virus that is naturally occurring and jumped from bats to humans via some intermediate animal host. For one, the fictional Wuhan-400 was created in a lab as a biological weapon. The clairvoyant theory has been gaining momentum online, resulting in the book suddenly re-hitting the bestsellers list. However, anyone with eyes can see from Hinton’s tweet the gaping transparencies in the claim. Last month, author Nick Hinton tweeted about the Koontz book, highlighting a passage which reads: ‘They call the stuff “Wuhan-400” because it was developed at their RDNA labs outside of the city of Wuhan.’Ī Dean Koontz novel written in 1981 predicted the outbreak of the coronavirus! /bjjqq6TzOl The Twitter-verse has consequently been freaking out, because of course that is exactly where COVID-19 originated. The story of a mother searching for her son whom she was misinformed was dead, the book describes a virus which originates in Wuhan, China. Why? Because, according to a growing number of agog readers and social media users, it foretold the coming of coronavirus.

Currently number one in fiction on Amazon UK and number four in the US, it is outselling the likes of Hilary Mantel and Lee Child. It’s an unlikely bestseller, but Dean Koontz’s thriller The Eyes of Darkness, first published in 1981, is experiencing an unprecedented revival. Did Dean Koontz predict coronavirus? » MobyLives

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