News Article: Researcher discusses importance of communicating to the public during a pandemic, and the personal risk it can entail

As well as her collaboration with Morris, Wiles also gave several thousand media interviews over the first two years of the pandemic. Like many scientists around the world, these have resulted in her receiving abusive, threatening and personally insulting messages, many of which featured in a recent documentary about Dr. Wiles called "Ms. Information." The harassment, including death threats, have left her anxious about her role in public life.