More than 2,000 Americans died from the novel coronavirus on Tuesday and hospitalizations resulting from the disease surged to a record high of 88,000.
Despite this grim news, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., complained on Wednesday that the news media is only covering the negative aspects of a pandemic that so far has killed 260,000 Americans in just nine months.
“On Covid, media emphasized bad news even when we had positive developments and did more Trump/hydroxychloroquine stories than all vaccine stories combined,” he wrote. “Part of a broader pattern of characterizing everything as bad news Republicans are to be blamed for.”
As many of Rubio’s followers quickly pointed out, the reason the media covered hydroxychloroquine so much was that President Donald Trump himself falsely pushed it as a “game-changing” treatment when most reputable studies of the drug showed it was not effective.
Check out some reactions to Rubio below.
Edit.. 1 MILLION doses .. I was thinking of the $500 Million in TAX BREAKS he gave Florida corporations during a pandemic while failing to fix the broken unemployment system leaving Floridians without safety net
Sorry, So much to keep straight in this state .. pic.twitter.com/6k8dZHvVG1
— Cathy (@CathyNotToday) November 25, 2020
…works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’"
– Matthew 7:21-23
— Jamie Schler (@lifesafeast) November 25, 2020
And of course, he can't throw his own network under the bus for touting hydroxychloroquine as a cure for COVID!
— Terry Daniel (@voiceoversbytd) November 25, 2020
People died and Trump and the republicans (still) don’t follow what the CDC recommends. Don’t blame the media. Truth sucks
— It’s about Country 🇺🇸not party (@tannarue1) November 25, 2020
