As news broke on Thursday morning that President Joe Biden tested positive for Covid-19, Fox News’s coverage of the breaking news notably pointed out on numerous occasions that Biden had been double boosted and as a result was likely to recover quickly.
Fox News anchor Bret Baier was on air discussing polling with America’s Newsroom anchors Bill Hemmer and Sandra Smith when the news broke and was quick to point out the difference between Biden’s testing positive and then-President Donald Trump, who tested positive in October 2020.
“Remember when President Trump was diagnosed and tested positive for Covid and the uproar about that. It was before all of the vaccines and everything we’ve seen with Covid. But this is the first time that President Biden has tested positive and it is a story of national significance obviously,” Baier noted.
Later while discussing the news with Fox News medical expert Dr. Marc Siegel, Hemmer asked, “He has been double vaxxed and double boosted, and in your own practice you still see infections come through your office, right?”
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