Election Years And Virus Outbreaks

And much like covid 19 the zika virus started late in the year leading up to an election year and bled over into it.

Election years and virus outbreaks. Zika was 2015 not 2016. The claim lists the diseases sars avian flu swine flu mers ebola zika and the coronavirus. Additionally several of these outbreaks had little impact in the united states despite the claim connecting each one.

Early outbreaks of h1n1 appeared in north america in april 2009. The swine flu was. Viral posts on social media claim covid 19 is no worse than other outbreaks that have occurred in every election year suggesting that the new coronavirus is being hyped to hurt president.

In addition sars was identified in 2003 not 2004. Additionally several of these outbreaks had little impact in the united states despite the claim connecting each one. The who reports the zika virus outbreak began in 2015 and continued into 2016.

In june of that year the who officially announced a global pandemic due to the fast spread of the virus that touched 74 countries. Many tweets and facebook posts are making the false claim that there is a trend of disease outbreaks matched to elections. Every election year has a disease reads one.

Disease outbreaks by year 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 health emergency dashboard public health events and emergencies interactive map. Fatality rate of major virus outbreaks in the last 50 years as of 2020 covid 19 cases worldwide as of december 14 2020 by country covid 19 deaths worldwide as of december 14 2020 by country. The who reports the zika virus outbreak began in 2015 and continued into 2016.

Coronavirus is also called covid 19 because it was first detected in the non election year of 2019.