{"id":1748214,"date":"2022-11-22T12:34:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T17:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748214"},"modified":"2022-11-22T12:34:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T17:34:20","slug":"new-york-times-triples-down-on-pandemic-fear-mongering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-triples-down-on-pandemic-fear-mongering\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Triples Down on Pandemic Fear-Mongering"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-york-times-triples-down-on-pandemic-fear-mongering%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748214&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/\">Media<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Paper warns readers about \u2018tripledemic\u2019 of COVID-19, flu, and RSV<\/p>\n<p>    White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci \/ Getty Images   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/karl-salzmann\/\" title=\"Posts by Karl Salzmann\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Karl Salzmann<\/a> \u2022 November 22, 2022 12:20 pm  <\/p>\n<p>The New York Times in a Tuesday podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/22\/podcasts\/the-daily\/flu-season-rsv-covid-tripledemic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">renewed<\/a> its COVID-19 fear-mongering, warning readers about a &#8220;tripledemic&#8221; of COVID, the flu, and the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).<\/p>\n<p>For background, the <em>Times<\/em> pointed to its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/23\/health\/flu-covid-risk.html?action=click&#038;pgtype=Article&#038;state=default&#038;module=styln-rsv&#038;variant=show&#038;region=BELOW_MAIN_CONTENT&#038;block=storyline_flex_guide_recirc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oct. 23 story<\/a> also warning of a &#8220;tripledemic.&#8221;\u00a0Because of &#8220;few to no restrictions in place and travel and socializing back in full swing,&#8221; the paper wrote at the time, an expected winter COVID surge will &#8220;collide with a resurgent influenza season.&#8221; The flu season, in turn, could coincide with an uptick in RSV cases.<\/p>\n<p>A few paragraphs into the story, however, the Times noted that &#8220;most cases of COVID, flu, and RSV are likely to be mild.&#8221; COVID cases have dropped both over the past year and just over the past 90 days, according to the Times\u2018s own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/us\/covid-cases.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coronavirus tracker<\/a>. Hospitalization and death rates have also decreased.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, COVID-19 variants that experts expect to cause a winter surge &#8220;don&#8217;t appear to cause more severe symptoms,&#8221; the Times noted.<\/p>\n<p>Young children, however, risk &#8220;becoming severely ill&#8221; from the flu and RSV because &#8220;they were not exposed to these viruses before the pandemic,&#8221; the Times wrote. The liberal paper did not mention that COVID-19 lockdowns might have led to lower immunity among children.<\/p>\n<p>The Times is not the only mainstream media source to fear-monger in recent days about COVID-19 and RSV. NBC News last week <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/nbc-suggests-parents-stay-away-from-unvaccinated-individuals-to-protect-children-from-illness-that-doesnt-have-vaccine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a>\u00a0parents that they should &#8220;avoid physical interaction with unvaccinated individuals&#8221; to ward off RSV, even though there is no RSV vaccine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times in a Tuesday podcast renewed its COVID-19 fear-mongering, warning readers about a &#8220;tripledemic&#8221; of COVID, the flu, and the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).<br \/>\nThe post New York Times Triples Down on Pandemic Fear-Mongering appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":1748217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1748217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}