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As the Supreme Court takes up the live controversy over President Biden’s attempt to enforce vaccine mandates on private businesses via the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), New York Times Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak made the lead slot Saturday: “ Conservative Majority on Supreme Court Appears Skeptical of Biden’s Vaccine Plan.” But Liptak’s 1,500-word back and forth included not a single sentence about an appalling piece of Covid disinformation, offered as fact during Friday’s oral arguments, by Obama appointee Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Arguing in favor of the need for the mandates, Sotomayor claimed “ We have over 100,000 children, which we have never had before in serious condition and many on ventilators .”
That’s not even close to factual. The actual seven-day average figure of under 18-year-olds hospitalized with Covid is currently under 800 . Sotomayor also stated falsely that “Omicron is as deadly and causes as much serious disease in the unvaccinated as Delta did.” It’s a particularly galling omission by the Times , hypersensitive to so-called conservative misinformation.
By its silence, the Times is only following along with the network evening news programs in suppressing Sotomayor’s gross Covid falsehoods .
Where is their “fact checker” Linda Qiu ? Maybe she’s exhausted from a series of January 6 misinformation checks. Even Qiu’s previous employer PolitiFact, historically reluctant to call out liberals, was compelled to rebut Sotomayor’s gaffe about the number of children with severe Covid.
Liptak’s story began: WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed to be leaning on Friday toward blocking one of the White House’s main pandemic-fighting strategies, expressing skepticism that the Biden administration has the legal power to mandate that large employers require workers to be vaccinated or to undergo frequent testing. The oral argument over that mandate, which rocketed to the court on an emergency […]
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