Houston Chronicle flubs Covid facts

The Houston Chronicle helped smear Ron Paul without checking the relevant data. I refer you to a previous InvisibleMan post:

Politifact's bogus case against Paul
https://invisiblepaul.blogspot.com/2020/03/do-faucis-virus-claims-add-up-facebook.html

Ron Paul on Covid 'hoax'
https://invisiblepaul.blogspot.com/2020/03/ron-paul-on-coronavirus-hoax.html

The Chronicle was accurate about the fact that Politifact had accused Paul. But it did no work to check on the credibility of Politifact, nor did it check the figures. Nor did it publish the fact that Fauci had given out two widely disparate figures for the death rate. In his medical journal article, he put the Covid death rate as about the same as that of flu.

The Chronicle then said that Paul was "incorrect," but did not add that in that case Fauci must have been incorrect.

From the Chronicle:

8:15 a.m. Former Texas congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul falsely claimed that the common flu is more deadly than COVID-19, according to PolitiFact.

Paul made the incorrect statement in a statement on his website after Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country's top infectious disease expert, said that the new coronavirus is at least 10 times more deadly than the flu, which is correct based on the World Health Organization's current data.

Paul, who is a doctor, called Fauci "the chief fearmonger of the Trump Administration."