The New York Times’ Apoorva Mandavilli — one of their lead reporters covering the COVID-19 pandemic — deleted a tweet on Wednesday saying the theory that the virus leaked out of a lab in Wuhan, China has “racist roots”:
So @apoorva_nyc – one of the lead @nytimes reporters covering #Covid – just tweeted she believes the lab leak theory is “racist.” (She has since deleted the tweet.)
How can the Times let her cover any aspect of Covid going forward? pic.twitter.com/CNuuEZY0Vv
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) May 26, 2021
She deleted the tweet because she didn’t like the responses it earned:
https://twitter.com/apoorva_nyc/status/1397569869676224513
She later clarified that the theory could be true but still have “racist roots” but never explained why even asking this was ever racist:
https://twitter.com/apoorva_nyc/status/1397575139127173123
And she doesn’t think an investigation will go anywhere anyway:
https://twitter.com/apoorva_nyc/status/1397577809460174849
Just wow.
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