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Netizens spooked with K-drama 'My Secret Terrius' after it allegedly predicted COVID-19


The 2018 Korean drama series "My Secret Terrius" went viral online after one of its episodes sparked conspiracy theories about the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

 

 

Videos of the specific scene — starting on the 53-minute mark of episode 10 to be specific — have been circulating online.

The scene showed a conversation between a doctor and a woman at the hospital talking about a "mutant coronavirus."

Here's the dialogue of the actors translated in English.

Doctor: We must do more research, but it looks like a mutant coronavirus.

Woman: Corona? Then MERS?

Doctor: MERS, SARS, the common flu. They all fall in the same family with the same gene information. The coronavirus attacks the respiratory system. During the 2015 MERS epidemic, the mortality rate was over 20 percent.

Woman: But that's not serious enough to be used as a weapon. Am I wrong?

Doctor: Like I said, this is a mutant virus. Someone tweaked it to increase the mortality rate to almost 90 percent. What's more serious is that the coronavirus has an incubation period of two to fourteen days. The virus was manipulated to attack the lungs directly within jsut five minutes of being exposed.

Netizens shared the clips of the video on their respective social media accounts, with some expressing fear while others believing the K-drama series predicted the current COVID-19 pandemic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"My Secret Terrius" is a Korean drama science fiction series about a woman who tracks her husband's death with her neighbor who is an NIS agent. They later realize that the husband was involved in a huge conspiracy.

What do the experts say?

A report in the journal Nature Medicine says their "analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus."

Tulane University virologist Robert Garry explained the genome sequence of COVID-19 and he said one thing he can tell everyone is that it is "not a bioweapon."

According to World Health Organization's (WHO) situation report dated March 6, the mortality rate for COVID-19 appears to be higher than influenza.

WHO said "the true mortality of COVID-19 will take some time to fully understand."

But the data WHO has so far indicates that "crude mortality ratio (the number of reported deaths divided by the reported cases) is between 3-4%, the infection mortality rate (the number of reported deaths divided by the number of infections) will be lower."

According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the virus is thought to spread between people who are in close contact with one another within about 6 feet.

CDC also stated it spreads through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes.

"These droplets can land in the mouths or noses of people who are nearby or possibly be inhaled into the lungs," CDC noted.

WHO situation report dated March 29 listed 634,835 cases and 29,957 total deaths globally. — Jannielyn Ann Bigtas/LA, GMA News

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