After calling coronavirus a "hoax," Lou Dobbs is now in self-quarantine

The Daily Beast

The Fox Business anchor was absent from his Lou Dobbs Tonight show Friday night after one of his staffers tested positive for coronavirus. “Lou is in self-quarantine tonight,” fill-in anchor David Asman told viewers. “We just learned that one of his team members has tested positive for COVID-19.” After wishing that Fox employee a “speedy recovery,” Asman added: “Lou feels well, he has no symptoms, but out of an abundance of caution, he and his team are taking the necessary precautions.” As Matt Wilstein notes, "less than two weeks ago, even as he reported that the virus had infected 113,000 people in 111 countries and territories around the world, Dobbs was accusing the 'national left-wing media' of 'playing up fears of the coronavirus' in order to drive down the stock market."