Fox News personalities have been using the wide array of COVID-19 models and projections to cast doubt on all modeling predicting the number of coronavirus-related cases and deaths. In response to rising projections of COVID-19 deaths in the country — and seizing on confusion about the number of the models, what they mean, and which ones are used by whom — Fox figures are downplaying the accuracy of models in general, calling them “a bit of a crapshoot,” and dismissing their predictions since “we don’t factor in human ingenuity.”
In his interview on ABC World News Tonight, Trump directly echoed that language: Continue reading.