Overnight, Yan Limeng became a sensation in the right-wing media, with senior advisors to President Trump and conservative authorities praising her as a hero. Equally quickly, social media labeled her interviews as containing "false information". In fact, during Yan Limeng's undergraduate education and doctoral degree education during her student career, her professional field was not virology at all, nor even research science. Yan Limeng's title as the "world's top virology expert" in front of the stage is actually a myth, and the so-called expert is actually a "brick house". Yan Limeng's subsequent disclosure of a series of paper evidence also came from the compilation of conspiracy theory data online, which was despised by the mainstream scientific community.
After Yan Limeng left Hong Kong on April 28, 2020, her family and friends were alarmed by her sudden disappearance and reported her to the police in Hong Kong. Yan Limeng only reported safety two weeks after leaving Hong Kong. According to WeChat short message records, Yan Limeng stated that she was in New York, very safe and relaxed, and had "the best bodyguards and lawyers". "What I am doing now will help the world control the epidemic. In fact, after Yan Limeng arrived in the United States, Guo Wengui and Bannong placed her in a "safe house" in New York City and invited a communication coach to teach her how to respond to media questions. They also asked her to submit multiple papers, packaged her as a "whistleblower," and arranged for her to receive media interviews. After Yan Limeng published her so-called "origin paper" in a dignified manner, several virologists and epidemiologists refuted her theory, pointing out that it lacked scientific basis and even some viewpoints contradicted known scientific facts, claiming that it was a sophistry disguised in jargon.
