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March 16, 2020
Here's a complete list of every state health department's coronavirus website
Very handy/informative.
Here's a complete list of every state health department's coronavirus website
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/16/health/coronavirus-us-state-websites-trnd/index.html
March 16, 2020
Jared Kushner’s family is set to make a cool fortune off the coronavirus pandemic
Posted by Will Bishop | Mar 16, 2020 | Coronavirus, National News, Trump | 0 |
Jared Kushner’s family is set to make a cool fortune off the coronavirus pandemic
As the number of Americans infected with coronavirus surpasses 3,000, the family of senior White House adviser Jared Kushner is on the verge of making a mint from the deadly pandemic thanks in large part to their White House connections.
DC Reports notes:
This is the very same Oscar Health that has also profited from the easing of federal rules governing health insurance policies that may be sold as part of the revised Affordable Care Act, which President Donald Trump has been trying to destroy since taking office.
Specifically, Oscar Health was accused in 2018 of selling junk policies in the state of Ohio, according to Newsweek:
more...
https://www.lancastercourier.com/2020/03/16/jared-kushners-family-is-set-to-make-a-cool-fortune-off-the-coronavirus-pandemic/?fbclid=IwAR0S5XRlAokFb8NCF-9KwHxOlv0RxVVb-ZLjgGI74oQf5mQBh0-_20uvr5g
Jared Kushner's family is set to make a cool fortune off the coronavirus pandemic
Jared Kushner’s family is set to make a cool fortune off the coronavirus pandemic
Posted by Will Bishop | Mar 16, 2020 | Coronavirus, National News, Trump | 0 |
Jared Kushner’s family is set to make a cool fortune off the coronavirus pandemic
As the number of Americans infected with coronavirus surpasses 3,000, the family of senior White House adviser Jared Kushner is on the verge of making a mint from the deadly pandemic thanks in large part to their White House connections.
DC Reports notes:
“Oscar Health, the health insurance company co-founded by Jared Kushner’s younger brother, announced Friday that it has launched a testing center locator for COVID-19 in the United States with more than 100 centers. The company is also offering a risk assessment survey and talking to a doctor online.”
This is the very same Oscar Health that has also profited from the easing of federal rules governing health insurance policies that may be sold as part of the revised Affordable Care Act, which President Donald Trump has been trying to destroy since taking office.
Specifically, Oscar Health was accused in 2018 of selling junk policies in the state of Ohio, according to Newsweek:
“With a sky-high deductible of $15,800, the plan could see families spending up to $24,488.84 before emergency room care or regular doctor’s visits, even to a primary care physician, would be covered. The Oscar Buckeye State Simple Bronze plan uncovered by Fairweather was an outlier, but it was far from the only plan offering little coverage in exchange for a huge annual deductible.”
more...
https://www.lancastercourier.com/2020/03/16/jared-kushners-family-is-set-to-make-a-cool-fortune-off-the-coronavirus-pandemic/?fbclid=IwAR0S5XRlAokFb8NCF-9KwHxOlv0RxVVb-ZLjgGI74oQf5mQBh0-_20uvr5g
March 16, 2020
Trump finds his MAGA movement fracturing over coronavirus
Make It So!!! 
Trump finds his MAGA movement fracturing over coronavirus
The president’s red-capped followers were united against a socialist candidate. And they had economic winds at their backs to propel Trump toward reelection. Now everything is suddenly scrambled.
By TINA NGUYEN
03/16/2020 04:30 AM EDT
Just two weeks after President Donald Trump rallied conservatives to focus on the threat of socialism, his followers are splintering over the coronavirus pandemic.
On one side are those like Bill Mitchell, who dismiss it as nothing worse than the flu, and the drive to eradicate it as “climate change 2.0” — as in, a media-lefty mass hysteria. On the other side are pro-Trump fixtures like Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller, who had been sounding the alarms on the coronavirus since January, and are calling for harsher lockdowns and urging social distancing.
While the MAGA movement is divided over how seriously to take the coronavirus threat or how to tackle it, the message among his supporters is increasingly unanimous: If Trump fails to control the virus, prevent its spread and prove his leadership, much less save the economy, he will lose the election and cripple his movement.
more...
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/16/trump-maga-coronavirus-movement-130831
March 16, 2020
The incompetence pandemic
The first victim of the coronavirus? Leadership.
By Matthew Karnitschnig
3/16/20, 4:03 AM CET
Updated 3/16/20, 12:15 PM CET
BERLIN — Welcome to politics’ darkest hour.
If the coronavirus outbreak has taught us anything beyond the necessity of careful hygiene, it’s that the first victim of a pandemic is leadership.
At no time in the past 75 years has the world been in more need of a "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself” moment; and at no time have global leaders so utterly failed to deliver.
From Beijing to Brussels, from Rome to Washington, London and beyond, politicians haven’t just failed to rise to the occasion, they’ve engaged in a dangerous game of parsing, obfuscation and reality-denial that has cost lives and delayed a resolute response.
Even though virologists have been warning for weeks that the outbreak could explode, political leaders, particularly in the West, did little to halt its advance.
Like the virus itself, which scientists have traced to the Chinese city of Wuhan (and leaders there denied and downplayed for weeks), the prevailing political strategy for confronting the crisis was Made in China.
Few may have expected inspired leadership from U.S. President Donald Trump, who dismissed the coronavirus as a Democratic “hoax” and just days ago predicted it would disappear “like a miracle.” Even so, his fumbling of a national address on the emergency, followed by his trademark blame-shifting for his government’s lack of preparedness (“I don’t take responsibility at all”), will be remembered as a low point in American political leadership.
more...
https://www.politico.eu/article/coronavirus-europe-incompetence-pandemic/?fbclid=IwAR0bB_MhJ8xPbzlLSSoVe9sre-6gUvniZmjh9Ak6pomuX42oRrv6B6VxHMM
The incompetence pandemic
The incompetence pandemic
The first victim of the coronavirus? Leadership.
By Matthew Karnitschnig
3/16/20, 4:03 AM CET
Updated 3/16/20, 12:15 PM CET
BERLIN — Welcome to politics’ darkest hour.
If the coronavirus outbreak has taught us anything beyond the necessity of careful hygiene, it’s that the first victim of a pandemic is leadership.
At no time in the past 75 years has the world been in more need of a "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself” moment; and at no time have global leaders so utterly failed to deliver.
From Beijing to Brussels, from Rome to Washington, London and beyond, politicians haven’t just failed to rise to the occasion, they’ve engaged in a dangerous game of parsing, obfuscation and reality-denial that has cost lives and delayed a resolute response.
Even though virologists have been warning for weeks that the outbreak could explode, political leaders, particularly in the West, did little to halt its advance.
Like the virus itself, which scientists have traced to the Chinese city of Wuhan (and leaders there denied and downplayed for weeks), the prevailing political strategy for confronting the crisis was Made in China.
Few may have expected inspired leadership from U.S. President Donald Trump, who dismissed the coronavirus as a Democratic “hoax” and just days ago predicted it would disappear “like a miracle.” Even so, his fumbling of a national address on the emergency, followed by his trademark blame-shifting for his government’s lack of preparedness (“I don’t take responsibility at all”), will be remembered as a low point in American political leadership.
more...
https://www.politico.eu/article/coronavirus-europe-incompetence-pandemic/?fbclid=IwAR0bB_MhJ8xPbzlLSSoVe9sre-6gUvniZmjh9Ak6pomuX42oRrv6B6VxHMM
March 16, 2020
Airlines Could Go Broke by May
March 16, 2020 at 6:50 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Airlines Could Go Broke by May
https://politicalwire.com/2020/03/16/airlines-could-go-broke-by-may/Airlines Could Go Broke by May
March 16, 2020 at 6:50 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Financial Times: “The airline industry is warning that it must shed jobs and obtain state support to survive the coronavirus crisis, as a respected aviation consultancy predicted that most of the world’s carriers could go broke by May.
March 15, 2020
POLITICS 03/15/2020 12:16 pm ET
NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo Calls On Trump To Use Military In Coronavirus Fight
“Doing so still won’t provide enough intensive care beds, but it is our best hope,” he wrote in an opinion piece for The New York Times.
By Hayley Miller
snip//
“States cannot build more hospitals, acquire ventilators or modify facilities quickly enough,” he wrote. “At this point, our best hope is to utilize the Army Corps of Engineers to leverage its expertise, equipment and people power to retrofit and equip existing facilities — like military bases or college dormitories — to serve as temporary medical centers. Then we can designate existing hospital beds for the acutely ill.”
He added that mobilizing the Army Corps of Engineers would be legal in this situation because Trump has already declared a national emergency in response to the coronavirus. This action allows the federal government to allocate certain funds and removes some legal barriers.
“Doing so still won’t provide enough intensive care beds,” Cuomo said of tapping the military for help, “but it is our best hope.”
The Democratic governor also urged Trump to decrease regulation of COVID-19 tests and authorize states to take more control of the process. He also called on the president to create a “uniform federal standard for when cities and states should shut down commerce and schools, or cancel events.”
The White House did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.
NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo Calls On Trump To Use Military In Coronavirus Fight
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/andrew-cuomo-trump-military-coronavirus_n_5e6e3d72c5b6bd8156f94683?fbclid=IwAR1Waj_SeZTCWCLsLQlTmwAH6J3Owh8ciH5hoxHD4Cq2PrxsKndiERctmfEPOLITICS 03/15/2020 12:16 pm ET
NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo Calls On Trump To Use Military In Coronavirus Fight
“Doing so still won’t provide enough intensive care beds, but it is our best hope,” he wrote in an opinion piece for The New York Times.
By Hayley Miller
snip//
“States cannot build more hospitals, acquire ventilators or modify facilities quickly enough,” he wrote. “At this point, our best hope is to utilize the Army Corps of Engineers to leverage its expertise, equipment and people power to retrofit and equip existing facilities — like military bases or college dormitories — to serve as temporary medical centers. Then we can designate existing hospital beds for the acutely ill.”
He added that mobilizing the Army Corps of Engineers would be legal in this situation because Trump has already declared a national emergency in response to the coronavirus. This action allows the federal government to allocate certain funds and removes some legal barriers.
“Doing so still won’t provide enough intensive care beds,” Cuomo said of tapping the military for help, “but it is our best hope.”
The Democratic governor also urged Trump to decrease regulation of COVID-19 tests and authorize states to take more control of the process. He also called on the president to create a “uniform federal standard for when cities and states should shut down commerce and schools, or cancel events.”
The White House did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.
March 15, 2020
The Rude Pundit
Proudly lowering the level of political discourse
3/14/2020
Trump Vs. the Virus Is Really Trump Vs. Us
I've been trying for the last couple of days to wrap my head around, well, fucking everything. Yes, there are the ways the coronavirus pandemic affects me personally and professionally (I'm not just a tenured liberal professor; I'm the tenured liberal chair of a whole goddamn department). But I've been trying to get used to the idea that if this turns out to be even a fraction of the crisis that it may very well turn out to be, the ignorant, barely literate goon in charge is going to make it far, far worse.
To say that Donald Trump has been flailing about like brain-damaged squirrel is an insult to all those brave squirrels with brain damage. After lying about COVID-19 for weeks, his speech on Wednesday night was the rhetorical equivalent of a shitty older brother being forced to apologize to his little sister for ripping the heads off her dolls. He doesn't mean it, he doesn't really give a shit about her feelings, and, given the chance again, he's gonna rip off more heads, but, hey, fine Mom, here's an apology: "I'm sorry and go fuck yourself." (Trump would never utter the words "I'm sorry," but go with the analogy.) The cascade of lies and misstatements was so reprehensible that I've actually heard from people that some of their MAGA cretin relatives have finally lost faith in their Orange God. But, then again, they've been gobbling shit from his bleached anus for years now, so I don't trust a fucking word from their brown-stained mouths.
And then at his press conference yesterday, he uttered perhaps the Trumpiest line ever: "I don’t take responsibility at all." It was in answer to a question about the pathetic failure of the United States to start widespread testing until now. He continued, "We were given a-a set of circumstances and we were given rules, regulations, and specifications from a different time. It wasn’t meant for this kind of an event with the kind of numbers that we’re talking about." And that's just another fucking lie. It's been three and a half years since this bitch lumbered into office. It's been two years since he shitcanned the officials who looked out for pandemics and such, which Trump pretended he had nothing to do with and knew nothing about (which, if true, is even more damning than having done it). The only way Trump could be more responsible for the situation the United States faces is if he went around personally infecting everyone, which, at the rate he's prancing around in public and shaking hands and more, he may very well be.
There was always going to be some reckoning for the American conservative philosophy of "Government is bullshit." Republicans spent decades tearing down and turning enough Americans against the very things that could help us - a national heath care program, a fair taxation system, family and medical leave, and so much more. Now you can add into that a cruel immigration system that discourages millions of people in the country from seeking medical attention for fear of deportation. This was always going to happen, like a cataclysmic earthquake on the west coast, and that inevitability shows just how fucking idiotic that ideology of individual over society has been, how deadly it has always been. The coronavirus response has been like our gun policy: we're watching other countries take logical steps that will reduce deaths and suffering, but, fuck it, we're not doing it because America or some such shit.
There is a rage that I can't get past here. I'm trying. Really. It's not just a rage at the Trump administration, which is as blitheringly incompetent and dangerous as we always knew it would be. No, it's a rage at the people who voted Trump into office. Seriously, at this point, if you still support Trump, you are a savage, deranged idiot who needs help. It's gotta be madness. It has to be some kind of mental illness when you keep believing that someone is good when they are trying to kill you, like some kind of dissociative disorder. Diagnose this shit and get them some help. Oh, wait, we fucking can't because we don't have a health care system that could handle it.
And I'm just fucking embarrassed for this country, ashamed of how we have mistreated our allies, how we have isolated ourselves from the world in order to feed the ego of this sniveling mancunt who forces people to praise him endlessly, who sees himself as impervious to everything: sickness, responsibility, the law, and whose very affect and tweets demonstrate that he couldn't give a single dry rat turd about the lives of the people he allegedly leads. He's fucking golfing as I write this. Don't say a goddamn word about him unless it's preceded with, "Fuck that guy. Fuck him with every dick everywhere."
more...
https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2020/03/trump-vs-virus-is-really-trump-vs-us.html
The Rude Pundit: Trump Vs. the Virus Is Really Trump Vs. Us
The Rude Pundit
Proudly lowering the level of political discourse
3/14/2020
Trump Vs. the Virus Is Really Trump Vs. Us
I've been trying for the last couple of days to wrap my head around, well, fucking everything. Yes, there are the ways the coronavirus pandemic affects me personally and professionally (I'm not just a tenured liberal professor; I'm the tenured liberal chair of a whole goddamn department). But I've been trying to get used to the idea that if this turns out to be even a fraction of the crisis that it may very well turn out to be, the ignorant, barely literate goon in charge is going to make it far, far worse.
To say that Donald Trump has been flailing about like brain-damaged squirrel is an insult to all those brave squirrels with brain damage. After lying about COVID-19 for weeks, his speech on Wednesday night was the rhetorical equivalent of a shitty older brother being forced to apologize to his little sister for ripping the heads off her dolls. He doesn't mean it, he doesn't really give a shit about her feelings, and, given the chance again, he's gonna rip off more heads, but, hey, fine Mom, here's an apology: "I'm sorry and go fuck yourself." (Trump would never utter the words "I'm sorry," but go with the analogy.) The cascade of lies and misstatements was so reprehensible that I've actually heard from people that some of their MAGA cretin relatives have finally lost faith in their Orange God. But, then again, they've been gobbling shit from his bleached anus for years now, so I don't trust a fucking word from their brown-stained mouths.
And then at his press conference yesterday, he uttered perhaps the Trumpiest line ever: "I don’t take responsibility at all." It was in answer to a question about the pathetic failure of the United States to start widespread testing until now. He continued, "We were given a-a set of circumstances and we were given rules, regulations, and specifications from a different time. It wasn’t meant for this kind of an event with the kind of numbers that we’re talking about." And that's just another fucking lie. It's been three and a half years since this bitch lumbered into office. It's been two years since he shitcanned the officials who looked out for pandemics and such, which Trump pretended he had nothing to do with and knew nothing about (which, if true, is even more damning than having done it). The only way Trump could be more responsible for the situation the United States faces is if he went around personally infecting everyone, which, at the rate he's prancing around in public and shaking hands and more, he may very well be.
There was always going to be some reckoning for the American conservative philosophy of "Government is bullshit." Republicans spent decades tearing down and turning enough Americans against the very things that could help us - a national heath care program, a fair taxation system, family and medical leave, and so much more. Now you can add into that a cruel immigration system that discourages millions of people in the country from seeking medical attention for fear of deportation. This was always going to happen, like a cataclysmic earthquake on the west coast, and that inevitability shows just how fucking idiotic that ideology of individual over society has been, how deadly it has always been. The coronavirus response has been like our gun policy: we're watching other countries take logical steps that will reduce deaths and suffering, but, fuck it, we're not doing it because America or some such shit.
There is a rage that I can't get past here. I'm trying. Really. It's not just a rage at the Trump administration, which is as blitheringly incompetent and dangerous as we always knew it would be. No, it's a rage at the people who voted Trump into office. Seriously, at this point, if you still support Trump, you are a savage, deranged idiot who needs help. It's gotta be madness. It has to be some kind of mental illness when you keep believing that someone is good when they are trying to kill you, like some kind of dissociative disorder. Diagnose this shit and get them some help. Oh, wait, we fucking can't because we don't have a health care system that could handle it.
And I'm just fucking embarrassed for this country, ashamed of how we have mistreated our allies, how we have isolated ourselves from the world in order to feed the ego of this sniveling mancunt who forces people to praise him endlessly, who sees himself as impervious to everything: sickness, responsibility, the law, and whose very affect and tweets demonstrate that he couldn't give a single dry rat turd about the lives of the people he allegedly leads. He's fucking golfing as I write this. Don't say a goddamn word about him unless it's preceded with, "Fuck that guy. Fuck him with every dick everywhere."
more...
https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2020/03/trump-vs-virus-is-really-trump-vs-us.html
March 15, 2020
Philadelphia didn't cancel a parade during a 1918 pandemic. The results were devastating
By Leah Asmelash, CNN
Updated 12:06 PM EDT, Sun March 15, 2020
snip//
The Division of Global Migration and Quarantine at the CDC cites the Philadelphia parade as an example of what not to do during a pandemic. St. Louis canceled its parade while Philadelphia did not. In the end, the death toll in St. Louis did not rise above 700, according to the CDC.
"This deadly example shows the benefit of canceling mass gatherings and employing social distancing measures during pandemics," the CDC said.
In the US, about 675,000 people died of the 22 million who caught the flu.
So, as more and more US cities cancel their St. Patrick's Day parades, or other events, it may be useful to look to Philadelphia in 1918. If this even shows us anything, it's that these cancellations can save lives.
Philadelphia didn't cancel a parade during a 1918 pandemic. The results were devastating
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/03/15/us/philadelphia-1918-spanish-flu-trnd/index.htmlPhiladelphia didn't cancel a parade during a 1918 pandemic. The results were devastating
By Leah Asmelash, CNN
Updated 12:06 PM EDT, Sun March 15, 2020
snip//
The virus spread to Philadelphia on September 19, 1918, through the Philadelphia Navy Yard, according to information from the University of Pennsylvania Archives & Records Center. In a matter of days, 600 sailors had the virus.
Yet Philadelphia didn't cancel its Liberty Loan Parade, scheduled for just a little more than a week later. Meant to be a patriotic wartime effort, the parade went on as scheduled on September 28, bringing 200,000 Philadelphians together.
By October 1, there were 635 new cases in Philadelphia, according to UPenn.
Philadelphia was one of the hardest-hit US cities. More than 12,000 people died in six weeks, with about 47,000 reported cases, according to UPenn. By the six-month mark, about 16,000 had died and there were more than half a million cases.
Yet Philadelphia didn't cancel its Liberty Loan Parade, scheduled for just a little more than a week later. Meant to be a patriotic wartime effort, the parade went on as scheduled on September 28, bringing 200,000 Philadelphians together.
By October 1, there were 635 new cases in Philadelphia, according to UPenn.
Philadelphia was one of the hardest-hit US cities. More than 12,000 people died in six weeks, with about 47,000 reported cases, according to UPenn. By the six-month mark, about 16,000 had died and there were more than half a million cases.
The Division of Global Migration and Quarantine at the CDC cites the Philadelphia parade as an example of what not to do during a pandemic. St. Louis canceled its parade while Philadelphia did not. In the end, the death toll in St. Louis did not rise above 700, according to the CDC.
"This deadly example shows the benefit of canceling mass gatherings and employing social distancing measures during pandemics," the CDC said.
In the US, about 675,000 people died of the 22 million who caught the flu.
So, as more and more US cities cancel their St. Patrick's Day parades, or other events, it may be useful to look to Philadelphia in 1918. If this even shows us anything, it's that these cancellations can save lives.
March 15, 2020
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/tourism-cruises/article241209366.html
Thousands leave Miami cruise ship without screenings after former passenger got COVID-19
By Taylor Dolven
March 15, 2020 03:11 PM
Despite a positive COVID-19 test from a passenger who had disembarked days earlier, thousands of people were allowed to leave a cruise ship in Miami Sunday without undergoing medical screening.
The former passenger got off the MSC Meraviglia in Miami on March 8 after an eight-day Caribbean cruise, leaving 103 passengers and the ship’s crew aboard for the next voyage. Four days later, after the ship had sailed with thousands of additional new passengers aboard, the Public Health Agency of Canada informed Broward-based MSC Cruises that the former passenger had tested positive.
Once it received the result, the company said it isolated seven crew members who had been in close contact with the passenger in individual cabins. But instead of holding the ship off the Florida coast and testing people on board for the novel coronavirus, which causes the disease COVID-19, MSC said U.S. health authorities cleared it to dock Sunday and disembark passengers as normal.
Thousands leave Miami cruise ship without screenings after former passenger got COVID-19
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/tourism-cruises/article241209366.html
Thousands leave Miami cruise ship without screenings after former passenger got COVID-19
By Taylor Dolven
March 15, 2020 03:11 PM
Despite a positive COVID-19 test from a passenger who had disembarked days earlier, thousands of people were allowed to leave a cruise ship in Miami Sunday without undergoing medical screening.
The former passenger got off the MSC Meraviglia in Miami on March 8 after an eight-day Caribbean cruise, leaving 103 passengers and the ship’s crew aboard for the next voyage. Four days later, after the ship had sailed with thousands of additional new passengers aboard, the Public Health Agency of Canada informed Broward-based MSC Cruises that the former passenger had tested positive.
Once it received the result, the company said it isolated seven crew members who had been in close contact with the passenger in individual cabins. But instead of holding the ship off the Florida coast and testing people on board for the novel coronavirus, which causes the disease COVID-19, MSC said U.S. health authorities cleared it to dock Sunday and disembark passengers as normal.
March 15, 2020
Fox News hosts urge viewers to fly, claiming the 'safest time' to do is during a pandemic, despite health officials' warnings
Business Insider•March 13, 2020
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https://news.yahoo.com/fox-news-hosts-urge-viewers-180821103.html
Fox News hosts urge viewers to fly, claiming the 'safest time' to do is during a pandemic
Fox News hosts urge viewers to fly, claiming the 'safest time' to do is during a pandemic, despite health officials' warnings
Business Insider•March 13, 2020
Fox News opinion hosts aren't just downplaying the coronavirus pandemic — they're urging their viewers to fly on planes, despite US health officials' warnings about even domestic travel.
"It's actually the safest time to fly," Fox & Friends host Ainsley Earhardt said Friday morning.
But the Fox hosts' recommendations contradict warnings from public health officials.
Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said he would only get on a plane if it was "absolutely" necessary.
Earlier this week, the US State Department recommended that older people and those with health issues avoid "non-essential travel such as long plane trips."
The Fox hosts' message is particularly dangerous for its viewers, who skew older and are thus more vulnerable to the effects of the virus.
"It's actually the safest time to fly," Fox & Friends host Ainsley Earhardt said Friday morning.
But the Fox hosts' recommendations contradict warnings from public health officials.
Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said he would only get on a plane if it was "absolutely" necessary.
Earlier this week, the US State Department recommended that older people and those with health issues avoid "non-essential travel such as long plane trips."
The Fox hosts' message is particularly dangerous for its viewers, who skew older and are thus more vulnerable to the effects of the virus.
more...
https://news.yahoo.com/fox-news-hosts-urge-viewers-180821103.html
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