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Here's just a few times Fox News has claimed the coronavirus crisis has passed:
Here's just a few times Fox News has claimed the coronavirus crisis has passed:
Feb 25, Fox medical contributor Dr. Janette Nesheiwat said of coronavirus, “We have it contained in this country.”
Feb 26, Nesheiwat again claimed that Trump had coronavirus “under control, it’s contained, we have the resources to keep it contained.”
April 7, Tucker Carlson: "That short term crisis may have passed. We'll see but it looks like it may have." https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1247680084359688192
The rest of prime time agreed: https://twitter.com/existentialfish/status/1247707885536268291
May 5, Tucker Carlson tells his audience the COVID-19 crisis is “easing” as models revise death estimates upwards https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/tucker-carlson-tells-his-audience-covid-19-crisis-easing-models-revise-death
May 13, Marc Siegel: "We're not going to have a big second wave" https://www.mediamatters.org/marc-siegel/foxs-dr-marc-siegel-predicts-no-big-second-wave-coronavirus-america
May 19, Andrew Napolitano: "The crisis period is over" https://twitter.com/revrrlewis/status/1262706119316770816
May 23, Jeanine Pirro: "We are past the danger zone" https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1264362682347634688
May 28 Fox contributor: "Some of the biggest states, like Texas, Florida, and indeed California outside of Los Angeles, have not had the incidence of COVID that you had in New York or New Jersey." https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fox-contributor-100000-have-died-covid-19-it-has-not-been-nearly-devastating
