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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,009 posts)
Thu Apr 9, 2020, 02:57 PM Apr 2020

Fux 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 Party’s 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, Fox’s 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 — doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.

“We’ve made it very clear, every time I’ve 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 it’s related to a COVID infection.”

https://news.yahoo.com/fauci-dismisses-conspiracy-theories-to-spin-the-coronavirus-death-toll-132059427.html

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Fux Noise says the coronavirus death toll is inflated. Experts say the opposite. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2020 OP
Prison or death row for lying about this FiveGoodMen Apr 2020 #1
Fox News should be eliminated because it's a terrorist organization. n/t RKP5637 Apr 2020 #2
I went to my doctor today I was surprised he doc03 Apr 2020 #3

FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts)
1. Prison or death row for lying about this
Thu Apr 9, 2020, 03:01 PM
Apr 2020

That's the only thing that could save us (and it's probably already too late)

doc03

(35,340 posts)
3. I went to my doctor today I was surprised he
Thu Apr 9, 2020, 03:24 PM
Apr 2020

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.

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