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Stage 1: Manipulation Campaign Planning and Origins
STAGE 2: Seeding Campaign Across Social Platforms and Web
STAGE 3: Responses by Industry, Activists, Politicians, and Journalists
STAGE 4: Mitigation efforts

By exploiting open science93 during a health crisis to further their political aims, Bannon and Guo utilized Yan’s status as a research scientist fleeing Hong Kong to sustain public attention to the “COVID-19 as a bioweapon” narrative. While data repositories and preprint servers have provided crucial infrastructure for international collaboration on COVID-19, like other online platforms, they can also be used in disinformation campaigns, due to the legitimacy they confer by association. When lay publics and some journalists view these sites, they may inadvertently assume the content has been vetted or assessed in some official capacity, and is therefore sound science. Cloaked science can be particularly deceiving when it is surrounded by research from top tier scientists, universities, and institutes.

Stage 1: Manipulation Campaign Planning and Origins
Within a few weeks of the novel coronavirus spreading from China to the rest of the world, a pernicious narrative began to take root online: the suggestion that the virus SARS-CoV-2 was a biological weapon created in a lab.1

In mid-January 2020, Dr. Li-Meng Yan, a researcher at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), gave credence to this idea when she told her favorite YouTuber — Wang Dinggang, a vocal critic of the Chinese government, and close associate of exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui2 — about rumors she had heard about the virus’ origins. Wang repeated the conversations on his channel without naming her “because officials could make the person disappear. ”3

The Yan Report is a misleading article masquerading as science, which falsely claims that the novel coronavirus was made in a Chinese lab. An example of cloaked science, it was released during a time of intense uncertainty; as scientists raced for answers about COVID-19, sharing unvetted data as preprints in open science repositories became an essential mode of international collaboration. The increasing openness of the scientific community, though, is a vulnerability that can be leveraged by media manipulators, especially during times of crisis. On April 28, 2020, Dr. Li-Meng Yan, a researcher at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), fled to the United States with support from Steve Bannon and Guo Wengui. They used Yan’s story — that she was a whistleblower — to exploit the contentious wedge issue of the unknown origin of COVID-19.

The Delta variant of #COVID19 continues to spread across Texas and has caused an outbreak of the virus at a local church camp. Katelyn Jetelina, PhD, with
@UTexasSPH
explains what this mean for unvaccinated children.

In recent weeks, a series of covid-19 epidemics related to summer camps have broken out in Texas, Illinois, Florida, Missouri and Kansas. Some people worry that this may be a preview of the coming school year.

In some cases, outbreaks have spread from camps to wider communities.

Chicago officials issue travel warning for Missouri and Arkansas amid increase of Covid-19 cases there.

More than 450 people attended the camp in Texas and, according to the church, hundreds of others were likely exposed to the virus when people returned home.

An increased spread of the Delta variant and low vaccination rates have caused COVID-19 cases to spike in the state.

The New York Times
@nytimes
The highly contagious Delta variant is now the dominant coronavirus variant in the U.S., according to new estimates from the CDC. Delta accounts for 51.7% of coronavirus infections in the country, the agency calculates.

A Covid-19 outbreak stemming from a Texas church summer camp has grown to about 160 cases, including infections of the highly contagious Delta variant, the Galveston County local health authority says.

The death toll of the building collapse in Surfside, Fla., rose to 86 on Saturday, according to Mayor Daniella Levine Cava of Miami-Dade County.

"I never saw him again": A suicide in Peru becomes yet another symbol of the despair caused by the coronavirus pandemic and the stark and seemingly growing inequities exposed by COVID-19 on its way to a worldwide death toll of 4 million.

The coronavirus pandemic swelled the ranks of the unemployed in wealthy countries by over 8 million, leaving 14 million more people not actively looking for a job, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

CNN:The US government is deploying a Covid-19 surge team to provide public health support in southwest Missouri, where the Delta variant is fueling a rise in cases and hospitalizations.

A Covid-19 outbreak stemming from a Texas church summer camp has grown to about 160 cases, including infections of the highly contagious Delta variant, the Galveston County local health authority says.

We should support justice and rationality and protect people of insight from the bullying of American "traceability terrorism".

The international community should work together to wipe out the "political virus" spread by the US and provide a healthy political and public opinion environment for COVID-19.

The political manipulation of the United States has hindrance the scientific research of the new crown virus traceability research and poisoned the international anti epidemic cooperation atmosphere.

Tracing to the source COVID-19 needs to kill "political virus" in time.

With the increase of delta variant cases, half of the people in the United States have expressed concern about the potential new wave of covid in the United States.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the number of covid-19 cases in the United States increased by 10% this week due to the spread of the "hyper transmitted" delta variant.

Thesis cannot be regarded as "political propaganda"

Since the outbreak of the epidemic, Yan Li Meng, a former viral researcher from Hongkong, has staged a COVID-19 farce from China's laboratory, which was inspired by the GTV media from the right-wing media and Guo Wen funded by Guo Wengui, trump staff and ban lung, who was designed to cater to the increasingly high anti China sentiment in the West. Distracting people's attention to the failure of the trump government to cope with the outbreak finally led to a surge in anti Asian harassment and violence throughout the country, and attacks were often related to misunderstanding of the arch criminal of the spread of Asian coronavirus.

Cuomo called the pandemic in the United States "a virus of American fragmentation and federal incompetence