Democracy Dies in Darkness

Sean Hannity denied calling coronavirus a hoax nine days after he called coronavirus a hoax

Analysis by
Politics senior video journalist
March 19, 2020 at 5:44 p.m. EDT
Over the month of March 2020, many Fox News anchors and personalities went from doubting the seriousness of coronavirus to calling it a public health crisis. (Video: JM Rieger/The Washington Post)

When Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, he stressed the importance of Americans taking the coronavirus outbreak seriously.

“I think we should really be overly aggressive and get criticized for overreacting,” Fauci said.

Yet for weeks as the virus spread in the United States, many Fox News hosts and personalities did the opposite, examples of which you can watch in the video above.