Surgeon General Jerome Adams and Fox News host Chris Wallace sparred today over Adams’s choice of words during a Sunday interview on the pandemic shutdown. The conversation provoked an unusual amount of mudslinging online between the two sides of the political aisle.
During the conversation, Adams defended the fact that nine states have not issued shut down orders, and likened the coronavirus to cigarette smoking. Wallace leaped on that comment, saying one is done by choice, the other acquired.
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Adams fell into word salad by talking about a report on tobacco cessation released earlier this year. “And we know that states have different laws there.
During the conversation, Adams defended the fact that nine states have not issued shut down orders, and likened the coronavirus to cigarette smoking. Wallace leaped on that comment, saying one is done by choice, the other acquired.
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Adams fell into word salad by talking about a report on tobacco cessation released earlier this year. “And we know that states have different laws there.
- 4/5/2020
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
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