Debunked COVID-19 conspiracy theory weaves a UNC medical researcher into the tale [View all]
The messages started coming a little more than a month ago, first on social media and eventually by email.
By March, Kari Debbink, a professor at Bowie State University who holds a doctorate from UNC-Chapel Hill, had received her first death threat.
The reason: She was being accused of helping create the novel coronavirus, which has caused the COVID-19 pandemic that has shut down much of the world, in a lab in North Carolina.
“To me it is just unbelievable that I would end up in a position to have someone think I could start a global pandemic,” she said in a phone interview with The News & Observer. “I reported it to the police … and they were just like, ‘What is going on?’”
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(Raleigh News & Observer)
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