People using threat of Covid-19 in US may face criminal charges
New Jersey is among the first states to consider making it a crime to issue a ‘credible threat to infect another with Covid-19’ or similar disease
14 May 2020 - 14:50
New York — Accused criminals across the US have started using the threat of deadly Covid-19 infection as a weapon in attacks on police, retail clerks and grocers trying to keep the nation fed during lockdown.
Threats of spreading Covid-19 have occurred from coast to coast, raising questions about whether states will move to criminalise the weaponisation of the novel coronavirus, the way more than half of US states made undisclosed HIV exposure a crime when the Aids crisis erupted in the 1980s...
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