However, weeks leading up to the coronavirus outbreak, as the Media Research Center demonstrated in a video on Thursday, several CNN anchors and reporters referred to it as the "Wuhan coronavirus" and "China's coronavirus." Included in the video was "CNN Tonight" anchor Don Lemon, who accused Republicans of calling the outbreak the "Chinese coronavirus" despite himself having called it the "Chinese coronavirus" while reporting on the first American who was tested positive with the illness. "Back when it was okay to call the Wuhan coronavirus 'the Wuhan coronavirus,'" Washington Examiner reporter Jerry Dunleavy observed. Zucker, Chinese state Media Minister on line 1,'" conservative commentator Stephen Miller quipped in reference to CNN's president Jeff Zucker. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPIn addition to Lemon, Acosta was called out for the apparent hypocrisy after previously tweeting about the "Wuhan Coronavirus."

Source: Fox News March 13, 2020 00:00 UTC