Fox News is devoting almost no coverage to growing cases of measles, outbreaks of cyclospora and Ebola, or the Trump administration's cuts to Medicare subsidies, while spending over 9 hours instead fixated on relitigating Dr. Anthony Fauci's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fauci, who helped lead the U.S. response to COVID-19, was subpoenaed by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) to testify in a Senate hearing this week, where he invoked the Fifth Amendment. Paul has long claimed Fauci lied about the origins of the COVID-19 virus despite scientific consensus that the virus occurred naturally. NPR reported, “Days before Wednesday's hearing, Paul released over 1,000 pages of Fauci's private diary entries about his daily life between December 2019 and 2022, accusing him of covering up the origins of COVID-19.”

Fox pounced on the story, dedicating 9 hours and 10 minutes to coverage of Fauci’s diary and Senate hearing from Monday through Thursday and nearly 3 hours to carrying the hearing live on-air. Meanwhile, multiple ongoing health care crises received less than 1 minute combined in the same time frame.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recorded more measles cases in the United States in the past 18 months than in the previous 25 years combined. At the same time, vaccination rates are decreasing across the country. Meanwhile, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has “halted funding for vaccine hesitancy research, downplayed the risks of measles and spearheaded a hunt for evidence that vaccines are unsafe,” according to The New York Times. The only mention of rising measles cases on Fox News this week was during a segment about Fauci in which host Jesse Watters mentioned higher measles cases as a way to blame the COVID-19 pandemic, and Fauci’s response, for children not getting vaccinated. In total, Fox spent less than 10 seconds discussing measles.

An outbreak of the explosive diarrhea-causing parasite cyclospora has spread to 45 states, sickening thousands. Former employees of the CDC said the country's response to the parasite is “being severely hampered by personnel cuts at the agency,” according to WIRED. Fox spent less than 30 seconds this week covering the outbreak, with both mentions coming during jokes on Gutfeld!

(Fox medical contributor Dr. Drew Pinsky previously dismissed the outbreak, telling network host Will Cain on July 13 that “to be honest, we shouldn't even be reporting it on your show” and “people don't need to panic about this at all.”)

The fastest-spreading outbreak of Ebola, which has no treatments or vaccines, is currently devastating Congo. The outbreak has “killed more people at a quicker rate than any previous outbreak, including in 2014-2016 when 28,000 cases were reported,” according to ABC News. Fox spent less than 20 seconds covering this.

And the Medicare Part D subsidy program, which keeps prescription premiums low for its estimated 23 million beneficiaries, is being ended by the Trump administration a year earlier than expected. People enrolled in the plan could stand to pay nearly 50% more for drug coverage without it, Juliette Cubanski, vice president and director of the Program on Medicare Policy at KFF, told NPR. Fox did not discuss this at all.

Media Matters searched transcripts in the SnapStream video database for all original programming on Fox News Channel for the term “Fauci” or any derivations of the term “diary,” the term “measles,” the term “ebola,” either of the terms “cyclosporiasis” or “diarrhea,” or the term “Medicare” from July 27, 2026, through July 30, 2026.

We timed segments, which we defined as instances when Fauci's private diary, the measles outbreak, the Ebola outbreak, the cyclosporiasis outbreak, or the Trump administration's plan to end the Medicare drug subsidy was the state topic of discussion or when we found significant discussion of any of the stories. We defined significant discussion as instances when two or more speakers in a multitopic segment discussed any of the stories with one another.

We also timed mentions, which we defined as instances when a speaker in a segment on another topic mentioned any of the stories without another speaker in the segment engaging with the comment, and teasers, which we defined as instances when the anchor or host promoted a segment about any of the stories scheduled to air later in the broadcast.

We rounded all reported times to the nearest minute or — if less than a minute total — to the nearest 10-second interval.