At least twice a day 3/30/20 I've tracked COVID-19 from the below site.
Live statistics and coronavirus news tracking the number of confirmed cases, recovered patients, tests, and death toll due to the COVID-19 coronavirus from Wuhan, China. Coronavirus counter with new cases, deaths, and number of tests per 1 Million population. Historical data and info. Daily...
www.worldometers.info
I've yet to hear from the media the below facts, i.e....that 94% of cases survive.
We also haven't heard that there has never been a hospitalization bed shortage.
There are a total of 924,107 staffed beds in the USA..https://www.aha.org/statistics/fast-facts-us-hospitals
Compared to how many beds have been needed: at most 17,000... again vs 924,107 beds.
So why haven't we heard?
My conclusion is it is political. The media has tried EVERYTHING to destroy Trump, Russia, Ukraine, Flynn, etc. and even
Bill Maher has recognized what this means i.e. the MSM's attempts to blame Trump.
Read his comments...https://deadline.com/2020/04/bill-maher-rails-against-media-covid-19-panic-porn-donald-trump-re-elected-1202911733/
Bill Maher Blasts Media’s COVID-19 “Panic Porn,” Warning Gloom-And-Doom Coverage May Get Donald Trump Re-Elected
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Live statistics and coronavirus news tracking the number of confirmed cases, recovered patients, tests, and death toll due to the COVID-19 coronavirus from Wuhan, China. Coronavirus counter with new cases, deaths, and number of tests per 1 Million population. Historical data and info. Daily...
www.worldometers.info
Oh, Jesus-H-Christ-on-a-Crutch... another Media Kornspiracy thheorist...
You may actually be right, to some extent, insofar as the media is "selling papers" (views, hits) and wish to draw attention to the lethality of the contagion...
And outlets like CNN and MSNBC probably do, indeed, take some delight in serving-up figures that reflect badly upon a job very badly done...
But you also need to ask yourself why Fox News and other conservative -centric outlets don't do more of that themselves, eh?
Bottom line... if Rump were a better man... or a better leader... or had done a better job on preparing for the pandemic early-on, there would have been little to fuss about.
In all likelihood, it's not so much political as it is disdain and contempt for a weasel in high-office who blames everybody-and-his-brother except himself for his shortcomings.
Juvenile, self-serving "
It's not my fault" weasel-words don't "cut it" in an office with a tradition of "
The Buck Stops Here".
Rightly so.