Misinformation spread by right-wing Fox News host Sean Hannity about the severity of the COVID-19 may be costing his some of audience their lives.
That’s according to a new working study from the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago that examines coverage of the global pandemic in February and early March on two of the cable news network’s highest-rated prime time shows, Hannity and Tucker Carlson Tonight, and suggests Hannity’s viewers suffered greater infection.