Artist Shemyakin: writer Dostoevsky predicted COVID-19 in Crime and Punishment 
Writer Fyodor Dostoevsky in Crime and Punishment predicted a coronavirus pandemic, said artist Mikhail Shemyakin, presenting his new work – a large installation in the Moscow Writer's House, Channel Five reports.
According to him, the protagonist of the work, Rodion Raskolnikov, has a dream when he is already on hard labor. Dostoevsky describes a situation similar to the COVID-19 pandemic. “And Raskolnikov dreamed that a microbe comes from the depths of Asia with the aim of destroying Europe, Russia and the whole world when people start to go crazy,” the artist specified.
Previously, the prediction of a deadly virus was found in the animated series The Simpsons “. It's about Episode 21 of The Simpsons Season 4 titled Marge Shackles. The episode premiered on May 6, 1993. In it, Springfield is hit by a flu epidemic, and Marge Simpson is sent to prison.
In addition, an accurate description of the coronavirus was found in the 2018 Korean TV series My Secret Terrius.