childrenshealthdefense.org In her new book, investigative journalist Sonia Elijah mapped out how a unified COVID-19 narrative formed early and shaped what could be labeled as fact. Drawing on five years of reporting, she told John Campbell, Ph.D., that early emails and documents stressed the importance of silencing alternative views. “The antidote to all of this is knowledge and truth,” she said.
In her new book, “3/11 Viral Takeover: On March 11, 2020, a Pandemic was Declared and Our World Changed Forever,” investigative journalist Sonia Elijah explores how COVID-19 information was shaped from the outset: “the censorship begins from the beginning.”
In an April 19 interview, Elijah told John Campbell, Ph.D., that her book draws on five years of reporting, including reviews of documents, emails, scientific papers and whistleblower accounts.
The book title points to the day the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Elijah said that moment accelerated and formalized a unified narrative across institutions, media and technology platforms, shaping what could — and could not — be said.
She traced the messaging to the earliest weeks of the crisis, before the declaration, when key positions were already taking hold.
A February 2020 statement published in The Lancet declared, “We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.”
Elijah said the statement reflected the authors’ conflicts of interest. “If you look at that joint Lancet statement, I think … 26 out of the 27 scientists involved had links with the Wuhan Institute of Virology … or its funders,” she said. “Isn’t that very telling?”
The statement also helped set the tone for dismissing dissent, according to Elijah.
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