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Tucker Carlson attacks medical experts for handling of the coronavirus

Following record unemployment insurance claims over the past two weeks, Fox News’s Tucker Carlson attacked the medical experts’ handling of the growing coronavirus crisis in the United States. Unemployment has skyrocketed as more and more states across the country have issued the recommended stay-at-home orders, causing shops, restaurants and other businesses to close for the time being in an attempt to slow the spread of the virus. And despite the Trump administration ignoring a 2019 intelligence report warning that the country was unprepared for a global pandemic, and declining coronavirus tests offered by the World Health Organization, Carlson blames those trying to save lives. He believes health experts aren’t the ones who should be making those decisions.

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TUCKER CARLSON: We're being asked to trust these same people without hesitation. And for the most part, we are doing that. In other words, the experts failed, yet the experts now have more power than ever before.

- Following record unemployment insurance claims over the past two weeks, Fox News's Tucker Carlson attacked the medical experts' handling of the growing coronavirus crisis in the United States. Despite the Trump administration ignoring a 2019 report warning of our vulnerability to a pandemic and turning down coronavirus tests from the World Health Organization, Carlson blames the CDC.

TUCKER CARLSON: One of the main lessons of this crisis is that the public health establishment failed us badly. Once the coronavirus reached our shores, the CDC couldn't seem to produce working tests. Those were disasters. Many people died because the people we trusted to protect our health didn't do it.

- Carlson even went so far as to defend the lieutenant governor of Texas, Dan Patrick, who took the controversial stance that the elderly should risk their health to save the economy for their grandchildren.

TUCKER CARLSON: Dan Patrick is telling old people to die for the stock market, they screamed. No, Dan Patrick was not doing that, not even close. He didn't say anything like that on the air, and that's not what he meant.

- Though the Coronavirus Task Force predicts hundreds of thousands of deaths, even with nationwide stay-at-home orders, Carlson believes he knows what should have been done.

TUCKER CARLSON: What if we asked the elderly and the immunocompromised and anyone else facing statistically higher rates of risk to stay inside, cloistered away, and then at the same time allow the rest of the population to use informed commonsense and continue to work?

- But Carlson admitted he doesn't know what kind of difference that might have made.

TUCKER CARLSON: What if we'd done that a month ago? Would the death rate today be much higher than it is now? Maybe, maybe not. We don't know.