Does 'Every Election Year' Have a Coinciding Disease?
Claim: A major disease outbreak occurred in "every election year" since 2004.
· Fact checked by snopes.comFact check: Are there illness outbreaks 'every election year?' - WRAL
WEBMar 13, 2020 · As coronavirus misinformation spreads like wildfire, there have been conspiratorial attempts to connect the disease to election year politics. Many tweets and Facebook posts are making the...
Fact check: Disease outbreaks don't occur only in U.S. election years
WEBAug 21, 2020 · The claim: Every election year has a disease. Does a connection exist between election years and the emergence of new epidemics? A viral meme has been circulating on various social media...
Major disease outbreaks are not tied to US election years
WEBMar 18, 2020 · Facebook posts shared thousands of times claim US election years coincide with major disease outbreaks. These claims are misleading; several years of discovery or the associated spread of a...
Partly false claim: “Every election year has a disease”
WEBMar 5, 2020 · A claim on social media alleges that “every election year” has had a major disease outbreak. The claim lists the diseases SARS, Avian flu, Swine flu, MERS, Ebola, Zika, and the coronavirus ...
Viral Posts Falsely Align Viruses to Election Years
WEBMar 18, 2020 · A viral image of a whiteboard sign claiming to have been “Posted at a Doctors office today” purportedly lists disease outbreaks that occurred in “every election year” since 2004. The image ...
A pandemic for every election year? Wrong - PolitiFact
WEBFeb 28, 2020 · SARS, avian flu and MERS had virtually no effect on the U.S. during election years. One exception: Ebola was a significant campaign issue in 2014. See the sources for this fact-check
No connection between major disease outbreaks and US election years
WEBMar 30, 2022 · There is no meaningful connection between the 2018 US mid-term elections and that year’s Ebola outbreak. Finally, Covid-19 first appeared in Wuhan, China, in late 2019. Chinese authorities reported the new disease to the WHO in …
A major disease breaks out every election year? - ABC 10News …
WEBMar 6, 2020 · Coronavirus is also called Covid-19 because it was first detected in the non-election year of 2019. In addition, Sars was identified in 2003, not 2004. Zika was 2015, not 2016.
PolitiFact | Bird flu outbreak in US isn’t timed for November elections …
WEBMay 24, 2024 · It’s unclear how the poster thinks a bird flu pandemic would affect the U.S. elections in November. But the claim echoes similar widely debunked claims that elites planned the COVID-19...
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