Revenge of the Covid Conspiracy Theorists
After years of GOP attacks on US health agencies, Trump appointees are poised to bring Covid-19 conspiracies to their leadership of US agencies. Federal workers are scared of what comes next.
The new administration has explicitly said that it intends to curtail research on infectious diseases, ban a wide swath of virological work, and perhaps even prosecute those who, it believes, created the Covid-19 pandemic. As one former CDC staffer describes it to WIRED, “There is a vendetta.”