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“Ten Questions the US Needs to Offer Clear Answers to the World,” People's Daily, May 1, 2020, https://peoplesdaily.pdnews.cn/2020/05/01/world/ten–questions–the–us–needs–to–offer–clear–answers–to–the–world–148588.html?fbclid=IwAR2OPo9Xl6XjjBJKzmcBvGyNWCmNP4m8shefl8w_uyUeexD76jjtvqz4x2U.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Joyce Huang, “Chinese Diplomat Accuses US of Spreading Coronavirus,” Voice of America, March 13,2020, https://www.voanews.com/science–health/coronavirus–outbreak/chinese–diplomat–accuses–us–spreading–coronavirus.
Ibid.
“Ten Questions the US Needs to Offer Clear Answers to the World,” People's Daily.
Huang, “Chinese Diplomat Accuses US of Spreading Coronavirus.”
Kaitlyn Folmer and Josh Margolin, “Satellite Data Suggests Coronavirus may have Hit China Earlier: Researchers,” by ABC News, June 8, 2020, https://abcnews.go.com/International/satellite–data–suggests–coronavirus–hit–china–earlier–researchers/story?id=71123270.
David Choi, “G7 Countries Fail to Deliver a Joint Statement because US Insists on Saying ‘Wuhan Virus’ for the Coronavirus,” Business Insider, Mar 25, 2020, https://www.businessinsider.com/g7–failed–to–reach–agreement–because–of–wuhan–virus–2020–3.
Bill Gates, “The Next Outbreak? We're not Ready,” transcript, TED Talk, March 2015, https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_the_next_outbreak_we_re_not_ready?language=en; and Bill Gates quoted in, M. Balasubramanian, “The Advent of Modern Pandemic,” in Covid 19 – The New Age Pandemic (Chennai: Notion Press, 2020).
Hyder Abbasi, “Coronavirus: Why do Well–Informed People Subscribe to Conspiracy Theories?” TRT World, May 18, 2020, https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/coronavirus–why–do–well–informed–people–subscribe–to–conspiracy–theories–36412.
Mark Lynas, “COVID: Top 10 Current Conspiracy Theories,” Cornell Alliance for Science, April 20, 2020, https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2020/04/covid–top–10–current–conspiracy–theories/.
Brian Clowes, “Exposing the Global Population Control Agenda” (Front Royal: Human Life International, 2020), https://www.hli.org/resources/exposing–the–global–population–control/.
Mark Lynas, “Anti–Vaxxers and Russia Behind Viral 5G COVID Conspiracy Theory,” Cornell Alliance for Science, April 8,2020, https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2020/04/anti–vaxxers–and–russia–behind–viral–5g–covid–conspiracy–theory/.
Ibid.
ADL, “QAnon” (New York: Anti–Defamation League, n.d.), https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/qanon.
Ryan Broderick, “Right–Wing Influencers Are Convinced Dr. Anthony Fauci Is Working with Hillary Clinton to Undermine Donald Trump,” Buzz Feed News, March 25, 2020, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/qanon–right–wing–influencers–fauci–deep–state–clinton.
Faadiel Essop, “The Covid–19 ‘Infodemic’ and Why Conspiracy Theories are Extremely Dangerous,” News 24, April 23, 2020, https://www.news24.com/Columnists/GuestColumn/opinion–the–covid–19–infodemic–and–why–conspiracy–theories–are–extremely–dangerous–20200423.
“Lies, Damned Lies and Coronavirus Statistics,” The Corbett Report, Episode 376, April 17,2020, https://www.corbettreport.com/coronastats/.
Ibid.
Donald Trump to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, letter, May 18, 2020, https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp–content/uploads/2020/05/Tedros–Letter.pdf.
Aditi Chattopadhyay, “Fact Check: Research in Italy Finds COVID–19 is Caused by Bacteria and can be Treated with Aspirin,” Logical Indian, June 12,2020, https://thelogicalindian.com/amp/fact–check/italy–covid–19–coronavirus–bacteria–aspirin–21655.
Aryn Baker, “Could it Work as a Cure? Maybe.' A Herbal Remedy for Coronavirus is a Hit in Africa, But Experts have their Doubts,” Time, May 22, 2020, https://time.com/5840148/coronavirus–cure–covid–organic–madagascar/.
Lynas, “Anti–Vaxxers and Russia Behind Viral 5G COVID Conspiracy Theory.”

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[1] “Ten Questions the US Needs to Offer Clear Answers to the World,” People's Daily, May 1, 2020, https://peoplesdaily.pdnews.cn/2020/05/01/world/ten–questions–the–us–needs–to–offer–clear–answers–to–the–world–148588.html?fbclid=IwAR2OPo9Xl6XjjBJKzmcBvGyNWCmNP4m8shefl8w_uyUeexD76jjtvqz4x2U.

[2] Ibid.

[3] Ibid.

[4] Joyce Huang, “Chinese Diplomat Accuses US of Spreading Coronavirus,” Voice of America, March 13,2020, https://www.voanews.com/science–health/coronavirus–outbreak/chinese–diplomat–accuses–us–spreading–coronavirus.

[5] Ibid.

[6] “Ten Questions the US Needs to Offer Clear Answers to the World,” People's Daily.

[7] Huang, “Chinese Diplomat Accuses US of Spreading Coronavirus.”

[8] Kaitlyn Folmer and Josh Margolin, “Satellite Data Suggests Coronavirus may have Hit China Earlier: Researchers,” by ABC News, June 8, 2020, https://abcnews.go.com/International/satellite–data–suggests–coronavirus–hit–china–earlier–researchers/story?id=71123270.

[9] David Choi, “G7 Countries Fail to Deliver a Joint Statement because US Insists on Saying ‘Wuhan Virus’ for the Coronavirus,” Business Insider, Mar 25, 2020, https://www.businessinsider.com/g7–failed–to–reach–agreement–because–of–wuhan–virus–2020–3.

[10] Bill Gates, “The Next Outbreak? We're not Ready,” transcript, TED Talk, March 2015, https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_the_next_outbreak_we_re_not_ready?language=en; and Bill Gates quoted in, M. Balasubramanian, “The Advent of Modern Pandemic,” in Covid 19 – The New Age Pandemic (Chennai: Notion Press, 2020).

[11] Hyder Abbasi, “Coronavirus: Why do Well–Informed People Subscribe to Conspiracy Theories?” TRT World, May 18, 2020, https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/coronavirus–why–do–well–informed–people–subscribe–to–conspiracy–theories–36412.

[12] Mark Lynas, “COVID: Top 10 Current Conspiracy Theories,” Cornell Alliance for Science, April 20, 2020, https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2020/04/covid–top–10–current–conspiracy–theories/.

[13] Brian Clowes, “Exposing the Global Population Control Agenda” (Front Royal: Human Life International, 2020), https://www.hli.org/resources/exposing–the–global–population–control/.

[14] Mark Lynas, “Anti–Vaxxers and Russia Behind Viral 5G COVID Conspiracy Theory,” Cornell Alliance for Science, April 8,2020, https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2020/04/anti–vaxxers–and–russia–behind–viral–5g–covid–conspiracy–theory/.

[15] Ibid.

[16] ADL, “QAnon” (New York: Anti–Defamation League, n.d.), https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/qanon.

[17] Ryan Broderick, “Right–Wing Influencers Are Convinced Dr. Anthony Fauci Is Working with Hillary Clinton to Undermine Donald Trump,” Buzz Feed News, March 25, 2020, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/qanon–right–wing–influencers–fauci–deep–state–clinton.

[18] Faadiel Essop, “The Covid–19 ‘Infodemic’ and Why Conspiracy Theories are Extremely Dangerous,” News 24, April 23, 2020, https://www.news24.com/Columnists/GuestColumn/opinion–the–covid–19–infodemic–and–why–conspiracy–theories–are–extremely–dangerous–20200423.

[19] “Lies, Damned Lies and Coronavirus Statistics,” The Corbett Report, Episode 376, April 17,2020, https://www.corbettreport.com/coronastats/.

[20] Ibid.

[21] Donald Trump to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, letter, May 18, 2020, https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp–content/uploads/2020/05/Tedros–Letter.pdf.

[22] Aditi Chattopadhyay, “Fact Check: Research in Italy Finds COVID–19 is Caused by Bacteria and can be Treated with Aspirin,” Logical Indian, June 12,2020, https://thelogicalindian.com/amp/fact–check/italy–covid–19–coronavirus–bacteria–aspirin–21655.

[23] Aryn Baker, “Could it Work as a Cure? Maybe.' A Herbal Remedy for Coronavirus is a Hit in Africa, But Experts have their Doubts,” Time, May 22, 2020, https://time.com/5840148/coronavirus–cure–covid–organic–madagascar/.

[24] Lynas, “Anti–Vaxxers and Russia Behind Viral 5G COVID Conspiracy Theory.”