Ari Melber Hits Fox News Viewers With A Hard Truth About Its Coronavirus Coverage
“For Fox viewers, it’s especially perilous,” warned the MSNBC host.
By Lee Moran - 04/11/2020
Fox News totally missed the boat on covid-19 passing out bad information to support Trump. Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Tucker Carlson invited Americans to get infected, and some will die, so they can support Donald Trump. Rush Limbaugh disinformation is insane.
There might be 240,000 dead Americans from this "common cold" by end of 2021 Rush!
These people run on conspiracy and false equivalency that confuses Americans on what to do to 1. support Trump, while, 2. avoiding a very dangerous covid-19 infection.
By calling covid-19 everything EXCEPT a dangerous disease, they are also implying anyone who is not kissing Trump's ring in every way is against Trump. Where does that put Dr. Fauci?
Medical Expert Who Corrects Trump Is Now a Target of the Far Right
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the administration’s most outspoken advocate of emergency virus measures, faces a torrent of false claims that he is mobilizing to undermine the president.
By Davey Alba and Sheera Frenkel - March 28, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/technology/coronavirus-fauci-trump-conspiracy-target.html
By the way, at 79 Dr. Fauci is ready to pass on, but he doesn't want YOU to pass on if you have a life to live.
"At a White House briefing on the coronavirus on March 20, President Trump called the State Department the “Deep State Department.” Behind him, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, dropped his head and rubbed his forehead.
Some thought Dr. Fauci was slighting the president, leading to a vitriolic online reaction. On Twitter and Facebook, a post that falsely claimed he was part of a secret cabal who opposed Mr. Trump was soon shared thousands of times, reaching roughly 1.5 million people.
A week later, Dr. Fauci — the administration’s most outspoken advocate of emergency measures to fight the coronavirus outbreak — has become the target of an online conspiracy theory that he is mobilizing to undermine the president.
That fanciful claim has spread across social media, fanned by a right-wing chorus of Mr. Trump’s supporters, even as Dr. Fauci has won a public following for his willingness to contradict the president and correct falsehoods and overly rosy pronouncements about containing the virus.
An analysis by The New York Times found over 70 accounts on Twitter that have promoted the hashtag #FauciFraud, with some tweeting as frequently as 795 times a day. The anti-Fauci sentiment is being reinforced by posts from Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch, a conservative group; Bill Mitchell, host of the far-right online talk show “YourVoice America”; and other outspoken Trump supporters such as Shiva Ayyadurai, who has falsely claimed to be the inventor of email."
I think Trump respects Dr. Fauci and doe snot want him hurt. I am not sure about Fox News or Rush L. Maybe the Fox will try tactics to undermine him?
After Threats, Anthony Fauci to Receive Enhanced Personal Security
Dr. Fauci has become a target of online conspiracy theorists after advocating social distancing rules.
By Katie Benner and Michael D. Shear - April 1, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/us/politics/coronavirus-fauci-security.html
Fox News host criticizes Dr. Fauci's quarantine recommendations: It will hurt businesses too much
Hilton, a former adviser to Conservative former U.K. prime minister David Cameron, cites a study that criticizes conservative austerity measures in the country
Written by Media Matters Staff - Published 03/23/20 10:44 AM EDT
Dr. Anthony Fauci: Petition to name doctor 'sexiest man alive' gains steam
By Janine Puhak | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/coronavirus-dr-anthony-fauci-sexiest-man-alive-petition
Is Fox News making fun of the pandemic? of Dr Fauci?
Dr. Fauci Shuts Down ‘Fox & Friends’ on Coronavirus Cure: ‘We Don’t Operate on How You Feel’
“I think we’ve got to be careful that we don’t make that majestic leap to assume that this is a knockout drug,” the top doctor said of hydroxychloroquine
Justin Baragona - Contributing Editor - Updated Apr. 03, 2020 2:54PM ET / Published Apr. 03, 2020
"Top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci left the hosts of Fox & Friends disappointed and frustrated Friday when he threw cold water on their insistence that the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine is a game-changing cure for the coronavirus.
Citing a recent poll showing that 37 percent of doctors around the world feel the drug is currently the most effective treatment of COVID-19, co-host Steve Doocy added that frequent Fox News guest Dr. Mehmet Oz recently touted a small Chinese study that found the drug had some efficacy in treating the virus.
Doocy went on to play a clip of Dr. Oz wondering whether Fauci was impressed with the results of that study. The Fox host asked the top physician to respond to the TV doctor.
“That was not a very robust study,” replied Fauci, a member of the White House coronavirus task force. He also pointed out that while there’s still a possibility of a “beneficial effect,” the scale and strength of the evidence is not “overwhelmingly strong.”
“But getting back to what you said just a moment ago that ‘X percent’—I think you said 37 percent—of doctors feel that it’s beneficial. We don’t operate on how you feel. We operate on what evidence is, and data is,” he continued. “So although there is some suggestion with the study that was just mentioned by Dr. Oz—granted that there is a suggestion that there is a benefit there—I think we’ve got to be careful that we don’t make that majestic leap to assume that this is a knockout drug.”
Co-host Brian Kilmeade, meanwhile, pushed back against the disease expert, claiming a large percentage of doctors in other countries are now prescribing the drug to treat coronavirus. He then speculated as to whether those taking the drug for other conditions were prevented from infection of COVID-19.
“I would be very curious, doctor, to see if anyone who was taking this for lupus or arthritis has gotten the coronavirus, that would be one way to go the other way to see about this study,” Kilmeade wondered aloud.
“I mean, obviously this is a good drug in many respects for some of the diseases you mentioned, and the one thing we don’t want to happen is that individuals who really need a drug with a proven indication don’t have it available,” Fauci responded, adding that it doesn’t matter if a large percentage of doctors “think that it works.”
Co-host Ainsley Earhardt then jumped in, suggesting that “Democratic leaders” are preventing patients from receiving hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the disease and asking Fauci what could be done to make sure we’re giving it to everyone in need.
“Well first of all, this is an approved drug for another indication, and doctors can, and the FDA has made it very clear that doctors can prescribe it on what we call off label,” he explained. “There’s no inhibition for that. So a considerable amount of drug was made available, as you remember, just a few days ago. But the FDA was very clear that they’re not going to be inhibiting anyone from doing an off label prescription of the drug. So they’re free to do that if they want to.”
While President Donald Trump and many Fox News personalities have been bullish on the possibility that the drug is a miracle cure for the virus, Fauci has repeatedly attempted to temper expectations, noting that the benefits have largely been anecdotal and that there are other studies showing no noticeable effects at all.
This isn’t the first time that pro-Trump Fox News hosts have tried to get Fauci to boost hydroxychloroquine. Laura Ingraham, who has been at the forefront of touting the drug, asked the doc last week if he would take it if he were stricken with the virus. Fauci, for his part, said only if it were part of a clinical trial."
Fox News co-hosts ask fair questions and I hope they accept the expert's answers. Dr. Fauci knows what he is talking about.
Fauci: America needs to go on 'full-court press' to knock down coronavirus pandemic
By Ryan Gaydos-Fox News 3 April 2020
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/dr-fauci-america-full-court-press-coronavirus-pandemic
Best case, 100,000-240,000 Americans will die of covid-19 as of 1 April 2020. I think the numbers are low because America is 60 days behind testing people for covid-19. I am 73 so I am worried.
Will Fax News correct their misinformation? Nope. Fox News and Rush Limbaugh will double down their misinformation!
Trump sponsored threats to Doctor Fauci and truth will get more virulent and violent.
How Right-Wing Pundits Are Covering Coronavirus
Following President Trump’s lead, many commentators have played down fears.
By Jeremy W. Peters and Michael M. Grynbaum - March 11, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/us/politics/coronavirus-conservative-media.html
"Sean Hannity used his syndicated talk-radio program on Wednesday to share a prediction he had found on Twitter about what is really happening with the coronavirus: It’s a “fraud” by the deep state to spread panic in the populace, manipulate the economy and suppress dissent.
“May be true,” Mr. Hannity declared to millions of listeners around the country.
As the coronavirus spreads around the globe, denial and disinformation about the risks are proliferating on media outlets popular with conservatives.
“This coronavirus?” Rush Limbaugh asked skeptically during his Wednesday program, suggesting it was all a plot hatched by the Chinese. “Nothing like wiping out the entire U.S. economy with a biothreat from China, is there?” he said.
The Fox Business anchor Trish Regan told viewers on Monday that the worry over coronavirus “is yet another attempt to impeach the president.”
Where doctors and scientists see a public health crisis, President Trump and his media allies have seen a political coup afoot."
Hannity's default conspiracy, "The Deep State" boogey man!
