After Fox News downplayed coronavirus for weeks, Fox medical contributor chastises young people for not caring enough about the illness
Fox News medical contributor Nicole Saphier: “We know that this generation, they like to take it to the streets, as AOC says. They do protest, they feel that they are invincible. Part of this is just being young and not having compassion for those older.”
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Citation From the March 19, 2020, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends
STEVE DOOCY (CO-HOST): So the CDC doctor says 40% of sick patients in the hospital, it turns out, are younger people between the ages of 20 and 54.
DR. NICOLE SAPHIER (FOX NEWS MEDICAL CONTRIBUTOR): That's a great -- thank you for Dr. [Deborah] Birx for coming out and to say this. And unfortunately we continue to see these spring breakers just having little care for what is going on. Not only as a mother of three, but my entire book Make America Healthy Again, I talk about how bad behavior and big government has caused our trillion dollar health crisis. This is no difference. We know that this generation, they like to take it to the streets, as AOC says. They do protest, they feel that they are invincible. Part of this is just being young and not having compassion for those older, but part of that is also their parenting as well.
So they're going to force themselves into a position of martial law where we're actually going to need to quarantine them. Because if they can't make good choices for the betterment of our country, then we need to separate them. Because that's not right. The people -- we're seeing fewer and fewer older people in the hospital right now because people are listening to Dr. Birx and Dr. [Anthony] Fauci. And they are staying in, they are socially distancing, and we need our younger generations to step up.