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CNN has never been the “facts first” news network they claimed to be and politicized doctor, Dr. Sanjay Gupta demonstrated that fact during Monday’s Cuomo PrimeTime. Without a shred of evidence, the Doctor floated a tinfoil-hat-level conspiracy theory claiming President Trump and the Coronavirus Task Force were intentionally withholding COVID testing capabilities. Of course, Chris “Fredo” Cuomo bought into it and just nodded along.
Conveniently ignoring the fact that the United States had rapid coronavirus tests that got results in 15 minutes, Cuomo was outraged that we didn’t have the U.K. tests that take 90 minutes. “How do they get these rapid tests,” Cuomo asked Gupta. “Is the U.K. so much better than us? Is there some science that’s proprietary? I mean, couldn't we be buying up those kinds of tests right now, Doc?”
It was that tee up that gave Gupta the room to spread his harmful conspiracy theory. “And you talked about this early on, there was a strategic, I think, method to minimizing this by not testing. Sad to say, but I think that's the truth now,” he declared.
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