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2020-07-11 -PC Follies
NBC Contributor Reveals He Never Tested Positive For COVID After Network Followed His Alleged Recovery
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Well, thank God he recovered.
Brian Williams: "I was sick too!"

So was Dan Rather. He showed me a copy of the note from his Mom.
[Federalist] After NBC News extensively followed the COVID-19 case of its own on-air contributor Dr. Joseph Fair, the virologist and epidemiologist revealed he tested negative for coronavirus as well as negative for the WuFlu antibodies, meaning he never had the virus.

"Joining me now [is] virologist Joseph Fair, who recently recovered from COVID-19 himself," the network’s Chuck Todd said introducitng the doctors on a June episode of "Meet the Press."

"Dr. Fair, let me start with you because I would like you to share a little bit about your recovery from COVID-19. What should Americans take away from your experience?" Todd asked.

After telling viewers he was a healthy 42-year-old absent of any underlying conditions, Fair characterized the illness as "the worst I’ve ever felt."

"I probably spent 23 our of 24 hours in bed," said Fair. "Those people that are young and think they’re invincible or people that just don’t think it’s going to affect them that greatly even if they do get it, I can say that my own experience was the complete opposite."

Fair however, had already tested negative for the virus at least five times according to Steve Krakauer of the Fourth Watch Newsletter and said this week his illness from two months ago "remains an undiagnosed mystery" following the results of a negative antibody test.

"I had myriad COVID symptoms, was hospitalized in a COVID ward & treated for COVID-related co-morbidities, despite testing negative by nasal swab," Fair told followers on Twitter.

Despite having appeared on NBC and MSNBC almost a dozen times to discuss his recovery from the virus, neither network has still released a correction on air. As Krakauer points out, this story about Fair's illness still has yet to be corrected.

Fair said he planned to take another antibody test.

NBC News did not immediately respond to The Federalist's request for comment.
Posted by Frank G 2020-07-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [15 views ]  Top

#1 NBC lied, who would have guessed?
Posted by Chris 2020-07-11 00:08||   2020-07-11 00:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe he got Mono?
Posted by Chunky Ebbanter9368 2020-07-11 01:39||   2020-07-11 01:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Only way this story gets better is if it comes out that he was treated with Witch Doktor Trumpenstein's Eeeevil Elixir.
Posted by Guillibaldo Tholuth8390 2020-07-11 02:20||   2020-07-11 02:20|| Front Page Top

#4 He never got tested in the first place. He just had the common cold.
Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2020-07-11 03:19||   2020-07-11 03:19|| Front Page Top

#5 NBC? Weren't they the ones caught rigging pickup trucks with explosive squibs for their big expose on how dangerous the trucks were? Why, indeed they were! And worse, they got caught doing it
Posted by SteveS 2020-07-11 03:28||   2020-07-11 03:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Also the network that edited Geo. Zimmerman's 911 call to the police for a news cast.
Posted by Clem 2020-07-11 06:48||   2020-07-11 06:48|| Front Page Top

#7 guy doesn't even look very sick in that photo.

if he didn't have oxygen connected, you'd think he was just in bed. which i guess is the point of the dramatic oxygen.
Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2020-07-11 09:51||   2020-07-11 09:51|| Front Page Top

#8 
Posted by bbrewer126  2020-07-11 13:04||   2020-07-11 13:04|| Front Page Top

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