claim: es falso que la covid-19 ya apareciera en un estudio financiado por la comisión europea en 2008
summary: facebook post shows images of a 2008 study published by chinese scientists and financed by the european commission and uses these to claim that covid-19 was known about since then. although the study mentions a sars-cov-2, this term was used to describe a portion of the large genomic material of sars-cov-1 which causes gripe and not covid-19.
subject_description: claim that a 2008 study financed by the european commission and written by chinese officials mentioned covid-19 suggesting that officials knew about the disease before 2020
Motive_Description: spread fear that disease was known about and even fabricated
author_description: general public
keywords: coronavirus, china, european commission, study