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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Newest Fox News Doctor Duo Has Been 'Emphatically' Condemned by Physician Groups
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Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi are making some wild claims about coronavirus fatality rates. Its made them media stars. But actual doctors are appalled.
Will Sommer
Updated Apr. 29, 2020 5:00AM ET / Published Apr. 29, 2020 4:47AM ET
Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi co-own a chain of urgent-care clinics. They dont appear to have any significant epidemiological experience. And their claims about coronavirus have been widely debunked by experts, including a national physician and emergency-care group that issued a joint statement emphatically condemning their reckless and untested musings.
Nevertheless, the two California doctors have managed to become rising stars on Fox News for downplaying COVID-19s severity. And they recently garnered another round of news coverage after inviting local media outlets to their office last week with an announcement that they had research that proved it was time to end the states shelter-in-place order.
Do we need to shelter in place? Erickson said. Our answer is emphatically no. Do we need businesses to be shut down? Emphatically no.
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Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi are making some wild claims about coronavirus fatality rates. Its made them media stars. But actual doctors are appalled.
Will Sommer
Updated Apr. 29, 2020 5:00AM ET / Published Apr. 29, 2020 4:47AM ET
Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi co-own a chain of urgent-care clinics. They dont appear to have any significant epidemiological experience. And their claims about coronavirus have been widely debunked by experts, including a national physician and emergency-care group that issued a joint statement emphatically condemning their reckless and untested musings.
Nevertheless, the two California doctors have managed to become rising stars on Fox News for downplaying COVID-19s severity. And they recently garnered another round of news coverage after inviting local media outlets to their office last week with an announcement that they had research that proved it was time to end the states shelter-in-place order.
Do we need to shelter in place? Erickson said. Our answer is emphatically no. Do we need businesses to be shut down? Emphatically no.
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The Newest Fox News Doctor Duo Has Been 'Emphatically' Condemned by Physician Groups (Original Post)
JoeOtterbein
Apr 2020
OP
support for these morans is all over FB these days. unmentioned is their link to fox nt
msongs
Apr 2020
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msongs
(67,199 posts)1. support for these morans is all over FB these days. unmentioned is their link to fox nt
HarlanPepper
(2,042 posts)2. Are they the new Diamond and Silk?
Submariner
(12,485 posts)3. Just more Fox News quacks emulating their heroes Dr Oz and Dr Phil
yonder
(9,631 posts)4. "....co-own a chain of urgent-care clinics."
Is there a better way to increase client visits than to push for virus exposure by opening up prematurely?
It brings to mind Irwin Mainway and his collection of children's toys like "Bag-O-Glass", "Mr. Skin Grafter", etc:
renate
(13,776 posts)5. why on EARTH would they jeopardize their entire future medical careers by pushing BS?
What are they thinking? Do they think they're stable geniuses who have brilliantly cracked the epidemiological case that the entire rest of the country, academics and clinicians and mathematicians included, have all misunderstood?
They're just going to be famous for being dumb loons who should be avoided at all costs.
Hekate
(90,202 posts)6. What is the name of their chain of clinics, so I can avoid it like the plague?