At the end of January, @voxdotcom proclaimed that the coronavirus would not be a “deadly pandemic.”pic.twitter.com/lMAInn4LxF
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Many in the #fakenewsmedia who are now attacking the admin's COVID-19 response, repeatedly downplayed the seriousness of the virus early on.
By contrast, POTUS took early action to restrict travel from China & declare a public health emergency.
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In January,
@washingtonpost posted an op-ed claiming our brains are causing us to exaggerate the threat of coronavirus.pic.twitter.com/OqA0nshaoi
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Also in January, NPR warned that the flu was a much bigger threat than the coronavirus.pic.twitter.com/kMIRVmAfoB
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In February,
@washingtonpost Post told Americans to “get a grippe.”pic.twitter.com/buv4p7J6be
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Downplaying the growing spread of the coronavirus,
@NYTimes wrote in February that fear of the virus may be spreading faster than the virus itself.pic.twitter.com/oMUIvgJYH3
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An early February opinion piece published in The Washington Post claimed that the government should not respond aggressively to the coronavirus.pic.twitter.com/lAl6C0njtN
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