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The claim: Image shows poster for a 1963 Italian movie called 'The Omicron Variant' As more cases of the new COVID-19 omicron variant are discovered in the United States, some social media users ...
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Dan Evon. An "Omicron" movie was made in the 1960s. In 1963, an Italian satirical sci-fi comedy movie called "Omicron" was released. A movie poster for "The Omicron Variant" is doctored; the 1963 ...
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There is an Omicron movie from 1964, but don't worry! It didn't predict a coronavirus variant. The latest variant was named after the Greek letter Omnicron, which also happens to be the name ...
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No. In a word, no. Though social media is rife with pictures of a poster for a purported 1963 movie called "The Omicron Variant," with the shocking tagline "The Day The Earth Turned Into A ...
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Omicron is the name of the latest coronavirus variant that has caught the world's attention.. The variant — named after the Greek alphabet letter — was first discovered in South Africa by researchers who said the variant had dozens of mutations that make it different than other COVID-19 strains, as I wrote for the Deseret News. As you might imagine, the name sounds like something out of ...
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Claims that the 1963 movie 'Omicron' predicted the evolution of the latest variant strain of SARS-CoV-2 are false. The film's distributor told Reuters the Italian science-fiction comedy ...
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A photoshopped poster advertising a non-existent film called 'The Omicron Variant' has duped some social media users into thinking the namesake coronavirus variant was planned.
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December 3, 20211:37 PM PSTUpdated 2 years ago. Claims that the 1963 movie 'Omicron' predicted the evolution of the latest variant strain of SARS-CoV-2 are false. The film's distributor told ...
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The 1963 Sci-Fi comedy Omicron directed by Italian filmmaker Ugo Gregoretti is a parody of capitalist society. The story centers around an alien scouting Earth in preparation for his species to ...
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