Korie Dean

2 weeks ago | gazettextra.com | Korie Dean |Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan

A secretive North Carolina legislative commission wants UNC-Chapel Hill to release a slew of records linked to elite coronavirus researcher Ralph Baric. Baric's life's work laid the foundation for the development of vaccines against COVID-19. But in recent years it has become a target of people insisting that the pandemic was caused by genetic engineering gone wrong, and that it was not a virus from nature. Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency.

2 weeks ago | thederrick.com | Korie Dean |Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan

A secretive North Carolina legislative commission wants UNC-Chapel Hill to release a slew of records linked to elite coronavirus researcher Ralph Baric. Baric’s life’s work laid the foundation for the development of vaccines against COVID-19. But in recent years it has become a target of people insisting that the pandemic was caused by genetic engineering gone wrong, and that it was not a virus from nature.

2 weeks ago | newsobserver.com | Cathy Clabby |Dan Kane |Korie Dean |Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan

In just a few years scientist Ralph Baric went from being heralded as a global leader in public-health focused coronavirus research, to a target of unprovenaccusations that he helped start a pandemic. The UNC-Chapel Hill professor spent decades studying emerging coronaviruses, long before the spread of COVID-19 ignited a worldwide health crisis in 2020.

2 weeks ago | charlotteobserver.com | Korie Dean |Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan

Ralph Baric, a professor of epidemiology, microbiology and immunology at UNC-Chapel Hill, poses for a portrait in his lab at the Gillings School of Public Health in Chapel Hill, N.C. on December 2, 2021. Baric is a world leader in the study of coronaviruses and his lab's research contributed greatly to the development of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine and two widely used and successful COVID-19 treatments.

2 weeks ago | dailygazette.com | Korie Dean |Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan

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