Coronavirus

Baylor University's Dr. Peter Hotez joined Andrea Mitchell on her Tuesday MSNBC show to discuss Dr. Anthony Fauci's appearance before the Senate Health Committee. Responding to Sen. Rand Paul's questioning of Fauci, Hotez alleged that attacks on Fauci are also attacks on him and on science.

Apparently, this is what counts for comedy in 2022 and on network television. During Monday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the eponymous ABC host played a sketch with young girls playing with what were referred to as “Anti-Vaxx Barbie” in a cheap shot at unvaccinated Americans, portraying them as anti-Semitic, deranged, misinformed, and even violent.

For the third straight day last week, the Chicago Teachers Union canceled classes, choosing to return to virtual learning and citing dangers from the Omicron variant as their excuse. To many, this is seen as nothing more than a teachers’ strike and power grab executed by a union that historically supports Democrat politicians. Democrats send federal aid to the union, and the union then uses it…

As COVID-19 hospitalization rates hit record highs, along with the number of children testing positive, all three networks on Tuesday avoided the obvious elephant in the room: Joe Biden. The President’s name was never mentioned during segments on the skyrocketing cases. Quite the contrast from how they blamed Donald Trump. 

YouTube’s censorship overlords suspended MRCTV for posting a video that dared to highlight government officials’ garbled messaging on COVID-19 guidance. 

On Tuesday, Hot Air Weekend Editor Jazz Shaw noted how some on the left have taken to “ghoulish end-zone dancing on social media” when someone who is unvaccinated dies of COVID-19. “While most people in the media are compassionate enough (or at least politically sensible enough) to condemn such callous behavior, the Los Angeles Times managed to find someone to take the opposite position,” Shaw…

The entire nation struggles from a lack of available COVID tests because of the Biden administration's failure to secure enough of them back in October. Meanwhile, the evening news broadcasts have been perfectly happy to ignore the fact that Biden's recent insurance mandate announced today to cover tests will only lead to further shortages. 

Once again, Univision took a cheap shot at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R). And once again, they've missed. This time, the network omitted critical information as they carried a potential opponent's water by pushing out a half-baked story over rapid tests that expired due to low demand.

Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy returned to the Brady Briefing Room on Monday for the first time in 2022 following a mild case of Covid and promptly threw down with Press Secretary Jen Psaki over “why” was the Biden administration “so unprepared for the need for testing,” President Biden’s falsehoods about Covid spread, and disinformation from Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

On the latest NB Podcast, we marvel at the amazing pundit acrobatics of the CNN Media Unit. In 2020, CNN was the center of the universe on coronavirus panic (unless you were attending a Black Lives Matter protest). Suddenly in 2022, there's too many "doomsday doctors" and "panic porn" out there -- now that Biden's approval rating is in the dumps and the Democrats are vulnerable in a midterm…

For nearly two years, conservatives and Republicans were vilified as conspiracy theorists for raising questions about COVID hospitalization numbers when it came to who was there because of COVID and who just happened to be infected. On Monday, CNN and anchor Jake Tapper finally arrived at the scene to ask the obvious questions after CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky admitted to Fox News that…

Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI) director of policy Rachel Bovard called out social media platforms on Twitter for their censorship of alleged COVID-19 “misinformation,” pointing to needed action now that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) admitted some of what has been heretofore considered “misinformation” by Big Tech is actually true.

With the U.S. Supreme Court hearing arguments about the legality of federal vaccine mandates, a certain Covid Karen at the Washington Post is really irked about something vaguely related: Masks. The deputy editorial page editor and longtime columnist for said periodical, Ruth Marcus, went postal because Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch was not wearing a mask while hearing oral arguments…

According to the rules the left set up at the start of the pandemic, spreading COVID misinformation was an offense that should get you kicked out of society. But the rules don’t apply to them as Monday’s edition of The View demonstrated; as co-host Whoopi Goldberg speculated she got COVID from the wind after opening a window and gave it co-host Ana Navarro “through the camera.”…