Alex Berenson, a Covid skeptic and anti-masker who regularly appears on Fox News to discuss the pandemic, was dragged on Twitter Tuesday for an old tweet in which he dismissed a projected death toll that turned out to be right.
“I don’t normally tweet my @FoxNews appearances but this one is vital: @IHME_UW [Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation] has been wrong over and over — why would anyone credit or repeat its projection of 500,000 US #Covid deaths by spring?” Berenson wrote last October.
It’s not yet spring, and the American Covid-19 death toll is already over 525,000, surpassing Imhe’s projection from last year.
Media Matters’ Andrew Lawrence expressed frustration with Berenson on Tuesday, writing, “Just no repercussions in conservative media for being this spectacularly wrong… this guy was on Fox last night casting doubt on the vaccine.”
Indeed, Berenson has been tweeting skepticism about Covid-19 vaccines, too. The author and former New York...
“I don’t normally tweet my @FoxNews appearances but this one is vital: @IHME_UW [Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation] has been wrong over and over — why would anyone credit or repeat its projection of 500,000 US #Covid deaths by spring?” Berenson wrote last October.
It’s not yet spring, and the American Covid-19 death toll is already over 525,000, surpassing Imhe’s projection from last year.
Media Matters’ Andrew Lawrence expressed frustration with Berenson on Tuesday, writing, “Just no repercussions in conservative media for being this spectacularly wrong… this guy was on Fox last night casting doubt on the vaccine.”
Indeed, Berenson has been tweeting skepticism about Covid-19 vaccines, too. The author and former New York...
- 3/9/2021
- by Lindsey Ellefson
- The Wrap
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