even Weather Channel carried the fake news:
18 Jul: Weather Channel: Coronavirus Updates: Worldwide COVID-19 Cases climb above 14 million
by Ron Brackett
of face mask requirement.
-A health official in Nueces County, Texas, said 85 infants under the age of 12 months have tested positive for the coronavirus, CNN reported. “These babies have not even had their first birthday yet. Please help us stop the spread of this disease,” said Annette Rodriguez, director of public health for Corpus Christi Nueces County. She did not provide additional details on their conditions...
https://weather.com/health/coronavirus/news/2020-07-18-coronavirus-updates-covid-19-pandemic-developments
Daily Beast has it, but it won’t open properly. no indication they mentioned “since March”.
unfortunately, even UPI has it:
18 Jul: UPI: COVID-19: Texas sees case spike in babies, federal prisons
By Sommer Brokaw
In Texas’ Nueces County, 85 infants under age 1 have tested positive for COVID-19, according to Annette Rodriguez, director of public health for the county...
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2020/07/18/COVID-19-Texas-sees-case-spike-in-babies-federal-prisons/7821595086129/
follow-up re TDS-infected ABC Australia. Friday night two of their staff were still pushing this NYT rubbish, with no mention of the changes made to the story:
14 Jul: National Review: Did the Times Print an Urban Legend?
By Michael Brendan Dougherty
The story has real didactic power in the current environment, illustrating perhaps four points of contention:
1) A young person
2) in a red state
3) believed the virus was a hoax
4) and failed to socially distance.
As a result, he’s dead.
The original sub-headline was: “I thought this was a hoax,” the man told his nurse, a hospital official said...
But, as I read the story originally earlier this week, I realized the details didn’t quite add up. If you believe COVID is a hoax, why would you attend a “Covid Party?”...
A closer look showed that not only were there no names named, but there was no date or location of the party and no other sources about where and whether it happened. And then there was the curious fact that a dying man’s self-incriminating final words were relayed to the press. Who gave permission for that?
But if you click on the article link now, as I write this, you will find a few paragraphs of hedging added in:
“The Times could not independently verify Dr. Appleby’s account. On Monday, the San Antonio health department said its contact tracers did not have any information “that would confirm (or deny)” that such an event had happened there.
“In recent days, the hospital distributed video of Dr. Appleby describing the case, along with a press statement. She did not say when or where the party took place, how many people attended or how long afterward the man was hospitalized with Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. She said she was sharing the story to warn others, especially in Texas, where cases are surging.”
These paragraphs were added long after publication. They also indicate where the story originated. The young junior reporter who wrote it isn’t in Texas but sitting at a desk, presumably at home. There is also another additional paragraph saying that the Times tried several times, through the hospital, to contact the dead man’s family.
You might also note the entirely different sub-headline: “Health experts have been skeptical that such parties occur, and details of this case could not be independently confirmed.”...
In fact, the story seems to have changed several times (LINK) since publication, in order to salvage the Times’s own credibility. The story has been transformed, edit by edit, from one of a man who died by taking a foolish risk in which the doctor was the only source, to a story about the questionable claim a doctor is making. There are no editor’s notes on it documenting the changes in the published story and the huge tonal shift from credulousness to skepticism.
A number of young journalists have been arguing lately that the traditional mission of journalism needs to be cashiered in favor of “moral clarity,” that journalism should be more like activism. What we have in this story is an example of where that leads us. The “moral clarity” was all there. It told a literal “cautionary moral tale.” But, the reporting and editing have lacked all the traditional ethics of the trade of journalism. The result looks to me like fake news and a disgraceful attempt at memory-holing the evidence.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/did-the-times-print-an-urban-legend/
the ABC presenters then moved on to an equally ridiculous local story about a vehicle with COVID19 number plates being parked at an airport since the beginning of the year, prior to the virus even getting its name.
13 Jul: ABC Australia: Mystery surrounds car with ‘COVID 19’ number plate parked at Adelaide Airport
ABC Radio Adelaide/By Eugene Boisvert
A car with the number plate “COVID 19” has perplexed Adelaide Airport staff, who say it has been parked there for months...
The disease caused by coronavirus was first officially labelled “COVID–19” on February 11, and was declared a pandemic one month later...
Mr Spry said as far as colleagues could recall, the car had been there since “February or even earlier”...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-13/car-with-number-plate-covid-19-parked-at-adelaide-airport/12448962
wow, how fantastic etc the pair on air said. they only needed to check their own website earlier Friday to find it was just personalized number plates issued much later:
17 Jul: ABC Australia: ‘COVID 19’ number plates listed for sale despite SA ban on term registered to mystery car
By Bension Siebert and Eugene Boisvert
Steven Spry said he and colleagues first noticed the car months ago, and were baffled as to who owned it and how long it had been there.
That prompted other reported sightings, with video and photos showing the car on the road and parked in a different spot at the airport in late March...
“DPTI (Department for Planning, Transport and Infrastructure) can confirm the plate agreement for the custom number plate ‘COVID 19’ commenced on March 5, 2020,” a spokesperson said...
Similar number plates have been issued to vehicle owners around Australia but state regimes differ as to what is deemed acceptable terminology...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-17/covid-number-plate-on-mystery-car-for-sale-despite-ban/12464072
ABC Australia considers itself the most trusted news outlet in the country, tho few watch or listen to their many stations/tv channels. they receive over $1 billion Australian dollars a year from the taxpayers, and seem to use CNN as a source for much of their reporting.
bury the FakeNewsMSM.