The Biden administration’s decision to vastly overstate the likelihood of contracting COVID-19 outdoors isn’t sitting well with one of its biggest allies: the legacy media. Multiple hosts on MSNBC and CNN said the inflated estimate shows that the CDC promotes “a huge exaggeration,” is “not following the science,” and is “Big Brothering us.”
The networks’ atypical criticism coincided with a New York Times article which claimed the CDC exaggerated the rate of outdoor transmission of COVID-19 by up to 10,000%. Since late April, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky has reportedly said “less than 10%” of all coronavirus infections had been contracted outside. The Times said that number is “almost certainly misleading”; the correct number is anywhere from 1% to 0.1%.
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