VERIFY: Cornell professor says COVID 19 is real, Facebook post is fake

A social media post attributed to Rob Oswald, a PhD in virology and immunology, claims that positive COVID19 samples sent to university labs found no SARSCoV2, but flu instead. It says that there is no such thing as COVID19. THE QUESTION Did a clinical research scientist named Rob Oswald determine that COVID19 cases are really bouts of the flu THE ANSWER No. Dr. Robert Oswald, a Cornell University professor whose picture is sometimes included with the meme from the post, says on his faculty page that COVID19 is real. Any Facebook post that suggests otherwise is a hoax and is not true.