The Associated Press Will No Longer Emphasize Covid Case Count to Help Joe Biden and the Democrats Going Into Midterm Elections

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Cristina Laila - The Gateway Pundit


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The Associated Press told its editors to no longer run stories solely on Covid case counts.

Anything to help Joe Biden and the Democrats going into the midterm elections.

The Democrats used high “case counts” from faulty tests to bludgeon Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

However, now that Covid cases are at record-breaking levels under Joe Biden, the AP is changing how they report stories.

“The number of case counts soared over the holidays, an expected development given the emergence of a variant more transmissible than its predecessors.” the AP said about the Omicron variant.

The AP argued the case counts were incorrect because many people self-test or are infected without even knowing it so for that reason they will no longer emphasize the case count.

“For that reason, The Associated Press has recently told its editors and reporters to avoid emphasizing case counts in stories about the disease. That means, for example, no more stories focused solely on a particular country or state setting a one-day record for number of cases, because that claim has become unreliable.” they said.

The AP is also now admitting there is a difference between being hospitalized because of Covid and being hospitalized with Covid.

“Hospitalization and death rates are considered by some to be a more reliable picture of COVID-19′s current impact on society. Yet even the usefulness of those numbers has been called into question in recent days. In many cases, hospitalizations are incidental: there are people being admitted for other reasons and are surprised to find they test positive for COVID, said Tanya Lewis, senior editor for health and medicine at Scientific American.” – AP said.
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[lost in melb.]

We can't even keep up with case numbers in Aus with Omicron. Funny how is nothing to do with our Prime Minister.

“Hospitalization and death rates are considered by some to be a more reliable picture of COVID-19′s current impact on society. Yet even the usefulness of those numbers has been called into question in recent days. In many cases, hospitalizations are incidental: there are people being admitted for other reasons and are surprised to find they test positive for COVID, said Tanya Lewis, senior editor for health and medicine at Scientific American.” – AP said.

Exactly.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

We can't even keep up with case numbers in Aus with Omicron. Funny how is nothing to do with our Prime Minister.

“Hospitalization and death rates are considered by some to be a more reliable picture of COVID-19′s current impact on society. Yet even the usefulness of those numbers has been called into question in recent days. In many cases, hospitalizations are incidental: there are people being admitted for other reasons and are surprised to find they test positive for COVID, said Tanya Lewis, senior editor for health and medicine at Scientific American.” – AP said.

Exactly.

The difference is that before you couldn't question any of the numbers released by the government, especially under the previous administration. In fact, when Trump was still president, all the MSM did was try and emphasize how high all the numbers were and that everyone was dying from Covid and that it was ALL TRUMP'S FAULT. But now that the democrats are in trouble, it's suddenly time to question everything so we can get the numbers down. If you dared to question that there was a difference between WITH Covid and FROM Covid you were labeled as a conspiracy theorist and a science denier. But now it's fine and they are all admitting that there's a difference because they want the numbers to look better going into the election in November. They aren't even trying to hide their hypocrisy.

[deebakes]

we all dead

[lost in melb.]

The difference is that before you couldn't question any of the numbers released by the government, especially under the previous administration. In fact, when Trump was still president, all the MSM did was try and emphasize how high all the numbers were and that everyone was dying from Covid and that it was ALL TRUMP'S FAULT. But now that the democrats are in trouble, it's suddenly time to question everything so we can get the numbers down. If you dared to question that there was a difference between WITH Covid and FROM Covid you were labeled as a conspiracy theorist and a science denier. But now it's fine and they are all admitting that there's a difference because they want the numbers to look better going into the election in November. They aren't even trying to hide their hypocrisy.

All true, but just so you know the same emphasis has happened in Australia as well. Because Omicron is different, it's creating a different set of problems.

Our main problem is in Australia so many people are sick and can't work that it's worse than lockdown. There's a whole lot of corner cutting going just to keep the economy running. So the narrative has changed here as well and part of that has nothing to do with politics.

But there is an added layer of politics/media in the US. Maybe it's even a kind of corruption, but I don't want to speak out of turn.