NYT reporter deletes tweet on the 'racist roots' of the Wuhan lab-leak investigation [screenshot]

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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