Dr. Peter Hotez s battle against the anti-science confederacy is a lifetime in the making
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The antivaccine movement taught vaccine researcher Peter Hotez not to ignore conspiracy theories, no matter how scientifically unfounded. But in late spring of 2020, the virulence of the made-up stories he began hearing about COVID-19 astounded him.
One hoax held that Bill Gates had created the new coronavirus to force all Americans to be vaccinated with eensy devices that would create a sci-fi global-surveillance network. Another said that the launch of a 5G network in Wuhan, China, had spawned the virus. Some people claimed, falsely, that Gates, Hotez and Dr. Anthony Fauci stood to get rich off patents related to the COVID vaccine.
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