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CNN didn’t just make one mistake trying to push President Joe Biden to extend the eviction moratorium. It made more than 200,000. That’s how much money it helped raise for a “mom” who wasn’t even the real mother of the kids in the story.

The CDC adds to the confusion each time it issues new statements. The latest came last week from CDC Director Rochelle Walensky who said, "everyone wear a mask in indoor public settings in areas of substantial and high transmission, regardless of vaccination status." That has raised the obvious question: Why get vaccinated if you must behave like those who have not been vaccinated? Last Friday…

New York Times covid-beat reporter Apoorva Mandavilli’s overheated lead story on Saturday, “Immunized People Can Spread Virus, the C.D.C. Reports,” seized upon rushed guidance from the Centers for Disease Control. The numbers from a comprehensive study of a virus outbreak over the July 4th holiday in the coastal resort town of Provincetown seem alarming at first glance. But are the…

The New York Times hasn’t recovered from the CDC’s new, looser guidance on mask-wearing. Wednesday’s report by Julie Bosman and Sarah Mervosh channeled the paper’s liberal precaution: “Under New Honor System on Masks, Americans Ask, ‘Am I to Trust These People?’” The text box relayed: “Guidance from the C.D.C. is greeted with skepticism.” Whatever happened to science-…

Just when you thought it was safe to venture outside again…Newsweek magazine has unleashed a hysteria-inducing cover story for the May 21-28 issue, calculated to inject a little pandemic anxiety back in your summer plans, while garnering reads by fear-porn aficionados. The not-so-original cover tag, “Winter Is Coming,” appeared over a bleak blue winter scene featuring spiked COVID…

Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy went into the weekend on a bang, hammering the Biden administration during Friday’s briefing about the sudden change no longer requiring vaccinated people to mask or socially distance indoors and outdoors. Specifically, he wondered what the “big breakthrough” was since President Biden had said in March that such a change was “neanderthal thinking…

Joe Biden is the luckiest man to ever assume the presidency. He succeeded an unpopular figure. He was inaugurated just two weeks after the dramatic storming of the U.S. Capitol by extremist Donald Trump supporters seeking to stop the certification of the 2020 election, which was also the beginning of the year after widespread race riots. 

Instead of just admitting that Republicans and many other Americans had legitimate reasons to be frustrated with the CDC guidance on masks and whatnot for vaccinated people, and how they weren’t providing enough carrots, CNN Prime Time host Chris Cuomo used the former as a foil as he pressed CDC Administrator Dr. Rochelle Walensky in an interview on Wednesday.

On Sunday night’s CNN Newsroom, host Pamela Brown continued CNN’s ongoing efforts to fearmonger about COVID by bringing on medical analyst and former Biden Transition COVID Advisory Board member Celine Gounder to meltdown over alleged super spreader events and advocate against Americans trying to return back to normal. Brown freaked out over Americans having a “false sense of security…

On Sunday’s Inside Politics with Abby Phillip, host Abby Phillip collaborated with former president of Planned Parenthood, former Baltimore health commissioner, and medical analyst Leana Wen to fearmonger about schools reopening. Ignoring all available scientific data, Phillip worried that the CDC’s current guidelines for reopening schools are not stringent enough to allow schools to…

Thursday’s White House Press Briefing featured more of the same with deflections from Press Secretary Jen Psaki as she downplayed the view of CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky that teacher vaccinations shouldn’t be a prerequisite to school reopenings and refused to state whether, if forced to pick a side, the administration would side with students over teachers unions.

Considering that the journalists at MSNBC consider Democrats the party of science and Republicans the party of collecting magic beans, it's not surprising that Rachel Maddow on Friday tried to spin life for Anthony Fauci under Trump as a nightmare. She lamented the "tough" times he endured under the previous president.  (But the vaccine was developed under which president?) 

On Thursday’s New Day, CNN hosts John Berman and Alisyn Camerota hurled juvenile attacks at President Trump over his public disagreement with CDC director Robert Redfield on masks. Camerota said Trump was "escalating his war on facts and science." Berman said "He also lies about everything from crowd sizes to injecting disinfectant, so there's that."

CBS This Morning journalists on Thursday used the most hyperbolic language possible as they weighed in on Donald Trump’s dispute with his CDC Director over the timing of a COVID vaccine. Reporter Weijia Jiang attacked, “This is not the first time President Trump has been at war with scientists. But this time he unequivocally threw his own CDC director under the bus.”