Sean Hannity's Fox News show helped spread of coronavirus, study suggests
4 years, 10 months ago

Sean Hannity's Fox News show helped spread of coronavirus, study suggests

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Despite his insistence that he has always taken the coronavirus seriously, a new study suggests Sean Hannity's rhetoric helped spread the virus during the onset of the American outbreak. The paper - authored by Leonardo Bursztyn, Aakaash Rao, Christopher Roth and David Yanagizawa-Drott of the University of Chicago's Becker Friedman Institute - examined Fox News programming between February and early March. The authors concluded that Fox News viewers who watched Hannity's show were less likely to follow social distancing guidelines, and that areas where Hannity viewership was higher tended to correlate to higher rates of infection and death. "Greater exposure to Hannity relative to Tucker Carlson Tonight leads to a greater number of Covid-19 cases and deaths," the authors wrote.

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