Rochelle Walensky inadvertently seeds covid conspiracy theory on Fox

When this came up in early April, there was another key health official whose comments led to a similar response on the right. Deborah Birx, Trump’s coronavirus adviser, had said, “If someone dies with covid-19, we are counting that as a covid-19 death.” Fox News pundit Brit Hume soon appeared on Carlson’s show and argued that this validated the argument that the virus was incidental in a significant number of cases and the death tolls were inflated. (He chose a particularly bad comparison, though, spotlighting prostate cancer, a disease that is often lengthy.)

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