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FLASHBACK: Dr. Oz, Fox's all-purpose coronavirus pundit, apologizes for pushing the 'trade-off' of..
When Fox News host Sean Hannity wondered what would it take to reopen the country amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, he turned to his trusted source on all things medicine and science: Mehmet Oz, the surgeon and TV personality better known as Dr. Oz.
“First, we need our mojo back,” Oz said Tuesday night, in a sound bite that has since gone viral. He suggested that some things could be opened “without getting into a lot of trouble,” such as schools. “I tell you, schools are a very appetizing opportunity,” he said, adding that resuming classes, according to his reading of a new medical journal analysis, “may only cost us 2 to 3 percent in terms of total mortality.”
That death rate, he concluded, “might be a trade-off some folks would consider.”
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Oz, 59, who also hosts his own syndicated daytime show, has long been a popular and controversial figure, facing criticism for comments he’s made about everything from vaccines to the Ebola virus. He even endured a congressional grilling in 2014 for pushing questionable weight-loss programs and calls for his firing from Columbia University’s medical school in 2015 by physicians who said Oz has “repeatedly shown disdain for science and for evidence-based medicine.”
Now, in the midst of an unprecedented pandemic, he’s become a fixture on Fox News, where he has offered some guidance within the scientific mainstream — such as advocating for uniform testing and warning people with underlying medical conditions to remain careful after social distancing ends — but has also hyped the potential of hydroxychloroquine, a drug whose benefits for covid-19 remain unproven and little tested.
In addition to being a charismatic speaker and a familiar face to TV audiences, Oz’s appeal to Fox may lie in the fact that many of his positions tend to be in sync with those of the networks’ popular prime-time hosts — and indeed with President Trump’s.
Oz, for example, has echoed Hannity’s — and Trump’s — promotion of hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug. He praised South Dakota Gov. Kristi L. Noem (R), whose state is doing widespread testing of hydroxychloroquine but is also home to a significant coronavirus cluster after she held off on issuing a stay-at-home order. He’s repeatedly mentioned research on the drug by doctors in China, directly quoting them on air.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/dr-oz-apologizes-for-fox-news-coronavirus-comments/2020/04/16/318a6d76-8012-11ea-a3ee-13e1ae0a3571_story.html
“First, we need our mojo back,” Oz said Tuesday night, in a sound bite that has since gone viral. He suggested that some things could be opened “without getting into a lot of trouble,” such as schools. “I tell you, schools are a very appetizing opportunity,” he said, adding that resuming classes, according to his reading of a new medical journal analysis, “may only cost us 2 to 3 percent in terms of total mortality.”
That death rate, he concluded, “might be a trade-off some folks would consider.”
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Oz, 59, who also hosts his own syndicated daytime show, has long been a popular and controversial figure, facing criticism for comments he’s made about everything from vaccines to the Ebola virus. He even endured a congressional grilling in 2014 for pushing questionable weight-loss programs and calls for his firing from Columbia University’s medical school in 2015 by physicians who said Oz has “repeatedly shown disdain for science and for evidence-based medicine.”
Now, in the midst of an unprecedented pandemic, he’s become a fixture on Fox News, where he has offered some guidance within the scientific mainstream — such as advocating for uniform testing and warning people with underlying medical conditions to remain careful after social distancing ends — but has also hyped the potential of hydroxychloroquine, a drug whose benefits for covid-19 remain unproven and little tested.
In addition to being a charismatic speaker and a familiar face to TV audiences, Oz’s appeal to Fox may lie in the fact that many of his positions tend to be in sync with those of the networks’ popular prime-time hosts — and indeed with President Trump’s.
Oz, for example, has echoed Hannity’s — and Trump’s — promotion of hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug. He praised South Dakota Gov. Kristi L. Noem (R), whose state is doing widespread testing of hydroxychloroquine but is also home to a significant coronavirus cluster after she held off on issuing a stay-at-home order. He’s repeatedly mentioned research on the drug by doctors in China, directly quoting them on air.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/dr-oz-apologizes-for-fox-news-coronavirus-comments/2020/04/16/318a6d76-8012-11ea-a3ee-13e1ae0a3571_story.html
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Was that during the 2015 primaries, or when he was president?
Either way... shades of Ronny.
Now that I think about it, I vaguely remember that happening. Thanks. 
The amount of airtime he got everywhere was disgusting.
