KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The widow of a popular Kansas City-area musician has filed a lawsuit accusing Dr. Anthony Fauci and the National Institutes of Health of indirectly causing her husband’s death from COVID-19 by funding coronavirus experimentation at a lab in China.
Leann Dykes, whose husband Jimmy Dykes died in November 2020, bases her claim on the unproven theory that the virus was leaked from a Chinese lab in Wuhan, where experiments were funded by the U.S. government.
The wrongful death lawsuit filed last week in Kansas City may be the first of its kind nationwide. No similar lawsuit could be found in PACER, the online registry of federal court cases.
