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As America faces 100,000 COVID-19 deaths, the national death toll is absent from Fox prime time
Over 12 days of programming, Fox News prime-time hosts mentioned the COVID-19 death toll just five times -- and only to attack Democrats, public health officials, or the media
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As the American death toll from COVID-19 races towards 100,000, it seems Fox News’ prime-time lineup has decided to avoid mentioning the number as much as possible. A Media Matters review found that between May 11 and May 26, the coronavirus’s total U.S. numeric death toll was mentioned between the hours of 8-11 p.m. on Fox only 11 times in almost 36 hours of programming, and only five times by the hosts themselves. Three of the mentions of the death toll during Fox prime time were from a clip of presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.