'For weeks the media told you it was wrong to worry about the coronavirus,' the Fox News host said.
Tucker Carlson said on his Fox News program Monday evening that the spread of COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus, could be partially attributed to the media linking concerns surrounding the news virus to bigotry.for equating preparation for COVID-19 with racial profiling.
"Countless publications wagged their fingers in the face of readers, and told them it was irrational, probably immoral in fact to worry about the coronavirus than the annual flu," Carlson continued. Fox News host Tucker Carlson blamed the rapid spread of COVID-19 on the media equating protection against the coronavirus with"identity politics."Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control show 53 confirmed U.S. cases of COVID-19 including 39 U.S. citizens recently returned to the country from the infected Diamond Princess cruise ship which has been quarantined in waters outside Japan.
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