Notorious New York Times propagandist Apoorva Mandavilli did as much to promote irrational coronavirus panic and extended school closures as anyone outside of government, with this among her many unforgettable corrections as the paper’s purported COVID expert:

We first noticed Mandavilli when she did a victory dance of sorts on Twitter after an article badly misrepresented a South Korean report on school transmission to scare parents in July 2020.

She corrected herself months later after the damage had been done and with a tiny fraction of the secondary media coverage.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/health/older-children-and-the-coronavirus-a-new-wrinkle-in-the-debate.html

Being constantly wrong has qualified Mandavilli to lecture at Harvard (alongside former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot) as — get this — a “misinformation expert”:

We can’t move on from COVID when the villains are still being praised as heroes.