MSNBC Issues Correction After Tweet Claiming 50% of the Population Could Die From ChinaVirus – IOTW Report

MSNBC Issues Correction After Tweet Claiming 50% of the Population Could Die From ChinaVirus

GP: The tweet originally quoted Hayes as saying “there is no option to just let everyone go back out and go back to normal if a pandemic rages across the country and kills 50% of the population.”

The correction said that Hayes had actually said “if a pandemic rages across the country and infects 50% of the population, and kills a percentage point, at the low end,” hypothetically.

Though this tweet may have been a misfire, Hayes has been one of the most alarmist and hyperbolic pundits out there.

During that segment, Hayes claimed that Republicans and Donald Trump are ready to kill a “million” senior citizens as a way of saving the economy from the coronavirus. more here

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