'She isn't willing to investigate anything that might hurt her tender feelings': Ted Cruz lays into NYT COVID reporter who deleted Tweet claiming Wuhan lab leak theory had 'racist roots'

‘She isn’t willing to investigate anything that might hurt her tender feelings’: Ted Cruz lays into NYT COVID reporter who deleted Tweet claiming Wuhan lab leak theory had ‘racist roots’ Texas Senator Ted Cruz laid into a New York Times science reporter after she claimed the theory that COVID-19 was leaked from a Wuhan lab has ‘racist roots’. Apoorva Mandavilli, who describes herself on Twitter as a Times reporter who mainly covers the coronavirus pandemic, sparked widespread outrage on Wednesday when she tweeted: ‘Someday we will stop talking about the lab leak theory and maybe even admit its racist roots….