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‘Dead Zone’ Plague Episode Predicts Coronavirus & Chloroquine
It seems that a lot of shows have been predicting the coronavirus pandemic, and the latest discovery is a crazy episode of The Dead Zone that not only predicted a plague, but also predicted that chloroquine could help stop it. Later in this story, we’ll share a video compilation showing the moments that remind people of COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2.
The episode of The Dead Zone is called Plague. It’s Season 2 Episode 14 of the popular series starring Anthony Michael Hall, Nicole de Boer, Chris Bruno, and more. The episode first aired in July 2003, according to IMDb.
The description for the episode reads: “When J.J. falls prey to a deadly new virus sweeping across the Northeast, Johnny must use his powers to solve a medical mystery in time to save his son’s life.”
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Yes, there really are a lot of similarities to what’s happening now. But why?
The Dead Zone is a TV series based on the characters in Stephen’s King’s novel with the same name. The show aired from 2002-2006 on the USA Network.
The simplest explanation for the episode is that it was inspired by the SARS outbreak that happened in 2002. The episode aired in 2003, so SARS was still very much on people’s minds back then. In fact, you can trace most of the similarities to the 2002 SARS outbreak. SARS is in the same family as SARS-CoV-2, so it’s not surprising that there are similarities.
SARS first appeared in China in 2002 according to Google and caused an outbreak that was first identified on November 16, 2002. More than 8,000 people in 29 countries were infected and 774 people died. SARS was mostly contained by July 2003, but some cases were still identified until May 2004. Symptoms include fever, muscle pain, cough, sore throat, and other flu-like symptoms, and it can lead to shortness of breath and pneumonia. Chloroquine was seen to be a possible SARS inhibitor back then. Here’s one study about it, published in 2005. A 2004 study talks about in vitro inhibition. Here’s another article from The Lancet.
Thus, it’s apparent that there was enough information known about SARS back in 2002 to inform the writers of this Dead Zone episode. It’s no surprise that the episode is so similar to what we’re experiencing now, since SARS and SARS-CoV-2 are in the same family.
Another similar storyline was seen in Netflix’s My Secret Terrius. Learn more here.
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