CNN's COVID-19 reporting continues to be among the worst and most misleading coverage being done by major news outlets.
Yesterday, CNN published an article about the recent death of a young girl in Detroit, Michigan. CNN titled the article "5-year-old girl dies from Covid-19 as some states aim to reopen." The article included the following statement: "The 5-year-old daughter of two Detroit first responders has died of complications from coronavirus. This heartbreaking news comes as states like Georgia roll the dice on reopening." The article included a video that briefly discussed the young girl's death and that criticized the states that are starting to reopen their economies.
CNN didn't bother to mention that the girl actually died from meningitis, not from COVID-19. Nor did CNN bother to mention that the girl tested positive for strep throat before she was tested for COVID-19. Nor did CNN bother to mention that the girl's worst symptom, severe headaches, is not a common symptom of COVID-19 but is a common symptom of meningitis. (The girl's other symptom was fever, which can be caused by a variety of illnesses.)
When the girl's parents brought her to the hospital after she had tested positive for strep throat, and after her severe headaches did not go away, the hospital tested her for COVID-19 and sent her home with pain medications. The parents then brought the girl back to the hospital because she was still experiencing severe headaches. The hospital then did a series of tests on the girl and discovered that she had meningitis, a deadly disease with a case death rate of over 12%. A few news outlets have been careful enough not to describe her death as "from COVID-19" but as "with COVID-19," since the actual cause of death was meningitis, not COVID-19.
Furthermore, it is not at all clear that the girl developed meningitis because she caught COVID-19. As noted, CNN failed to mention that the girl also tested positive for strep throat. She could have developed meningitis because of her strep throat, since bacterial meningitis is caused by some of the same germs that cause strep throat. It is entirely possible that the girl's death had nothing to do with COVID-19.
CNN's misleading reporting has been part of the irresponsible reporting that has fueled so much needless panic over COVID-19 and that has put pressure on government officials to impose unnecessary lockdowns, close thousands of businesses, and put tens of millions of people out of work.
Here is an article from the scholarly online journal Reason on the recent antibody tests in Los Angeles County that indicate that the COVID-19 death rate is much lower than we have been led to believe:
Yesterday, CNN published an article about the recent death of a young girl in Detroit, Michigan. CNN titled the article "5-year-old girl dies from Covid-19 as some states aim to reopen." The article included the following statement: "The 5-year-old daughter of two Detroit first responders has died of complications from coronavirus. This heartbreaking news comes as states like Georgia roll the dice on reopening." The article included a video that briefly discussed the young girl's death and that criticized the states that are starting to reopen their economies.
CNN didn't bother to mention that the girl actually died from meningitis, not from COVID-19. Nor did CNN bother to mention that the girl tested positive for strep throat before she was tested for COVID-19. Nor did CNN bother to mention that the girl's worst symptom, severe headaches, is not a common symptom of COVID-19 but is a common symptom of meningitis. (The girl's other symptom was fever, which can be caused by a variety of illnesses.)
When the girl's parents brought her to the hospital after she had tested positive for strep throat, and after her severe headaches did not go away, the hospital tested her for COVID-19 and sent her home with pain medications. The parents then brought the girl back to the hospital because she was still experiencing severe headaches. The hospital then did a series of tests on the girl and discovered that she had meningitis, a deadly disease with a case death rate of over 12%. A few news outlets have been careful enough not to describe her death as "from COVID-19" but as "with COVID-19," since the actual cause of death was meningitis, not COVID-19.
Furthermore, it is not at all clear that the girl developed meningitis because she caught COVID-19. As noted, CNN failed to mention that the girl also tested positive for strep throat. She could have developed meningitis because of her strep throat, since bacterial meningitis is caused by some of the same germs that cause strep throat. It is entirely possible that the girl's death had nothing to do with COVID-19.
CNN's misleading reporting has been part of the irresponsible reporting that has fueled so much needless panic over COVID-19 and that has put pressure on government officials to impose unnecessary lockdowns, close thousands of businesses, and put tens of millions of people out of work.
Here is an article from the scholarly online journal Reason on the recent antibody tests in Los Angeles County that indicate that the COVID-19 death rate is much lower than we have been led to believe:
L.A. County Antibody Tests Suggest the Fatality Rate for COVID-19 Is Much Lower Than People Feared
The tests indicate that the number of infections in the county is around 40 times as high as the number of confirmed cases.
reason.com