Céline Gounder, epidemiologist and widow of Grant Wahl: 'When these disinformation opportunists recently used the same playbook to blame Damar Hamlin’s in-game cardiac arrest on COVID vaccines, the dam broke. I knew I had to write this essay.'
In this Jan. 5, 2021, photo, a health care worker receives a second Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine shot in Southfield, Mich.It was the end of the workday on Friday, Dec. 9, 2022. I was wrapping up a Zoom call when my phone started to vibrate with calls, text messages and emails. Gabriele Marcotti, an ESPN journalist, was trying to reach me from Qatar, where he was covering the World Cup alongside my husband, Grant Wahl.
As soon as the news became public, rumors and disinformation began to spread. Amid seemingly inexplicable tragedy, there’s an understandable reflex to grasp onto narratives that could explain how something so shocking could occur. Even those of us who love Grant did so in our grief. But soon strangers began blaming Grant’s death on COVID-19 vaccines, a playbook I know all too well and a move I refuse to let stand.
and invites further trolling. But this situation was different from the many others I’d dealt with as an infectious disease specialist and epidemiologist or while serving on the Biden-Harris transition COVID Advisory Board. This wasGrant, and I needed to know what had happened to him. And I knew I had to share that information publicly: Pairing facts with empathy is the best way to disempower trolls.
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