Column: Amid ivermectin hysteria, QAnon supporter Veronica Wolski died of COVID-19. But conspiracies helped kill her.

Few of us knew Wolski. She spent years visiting that pedestrian bridge, first hoisting signs in support of former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, then switching to QAnon, which, as described in a recent Public Religion Research Institute study, alleges that “the government, media, and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex trafficking operation.” According to the study, 15% of Americans believe that nonsense.

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