Covid: Scientists targeted with abuse during pandemicon October 13, 2021 at 5:00 pm

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Doctors who came into the public eye during Covid received death threats and harassment.

Fiona Fox, chief executive of the UK Science Media Centre, which provides scientific comment and briefings to journalists, said it was a “great loss if a scientist who was engaging with the media, sharing their expertise, is taken out of a public debate at a time when we’ve never needed them so badly”.

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