Dr. Oz and other TV docs hit with new coronavirus symptom: tripping over their own tongues.
Three of America's best known TV doctors are taking their medicine after making inflammatory statements about the coronavirus.
None are experts on pandemics and McGraw isn’t even a medical doctor . Yet all three weighed in on a pandemic that has paralyzed the country. And Oz was a recent guest on“What's remarkable in this case is that all three of these folks have gotten into trouble speaking, sometimes in aggressively offensive ways, against the consensus of medical intelligence,” Bob Thompson, a Syracuse University professor and expert on pop culture, said in an email to NBC News.
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