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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFux Noise says the coronavirus death toll is inflated. Experts say the opposite.
In his 2014 book The Loudest Voice in the Room, journalist Gabriel Sherman reported that top Fox News executives meet every morning to strategize about how the network can angle its daily coverage to advance the Republican Partys political agenda.
After first downplaying the threat of the coronavirus, then accusing Democrats of overhyping it to hurt President Trump, then claiming the cure of shutting down the economy could be worse than the disease, Fox News hosts now seem to be following a new set of marching orders when discussing the deadly pathogen: questioning whether all that many people are really dying from it.
Like each of its predecessors, Foxs latest pandemic talking point that the coronavirus death toll could be exaggerated because it includes individuals who had other health issues in addition to COVID-19 doesnt stand up to scrutiny.
Weve made it very clear, every time Ive been up here, about the comorbidities, Dr. Deborah Birx, the U.S. coronavirus response coordinator, said Wednesday during the White House coronavirus task force press briefing. This has been known from the beginning. So those individuals will have an underlying condition, but that underlying condition did not cause their acute death when its related to a COVID infection.
https://news.yahoo.com/fauci-dismisses-conspiracy-theories-to-spin-the-coronavirus-death-toll-132059427.html
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)That's the only thing that could save us (and it's probably already too late)
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)doc03
(35,340 posts)down played the seriousness of the COVID-19. He said that the total death rate is actually down this year. I don't know maybe he is a Trumpite. I can't imagine a doctor being stupid enough to believe Fox News.