Marjorie Taylor Greene on hospitals reaching capacity due to Covid surge: ‘We can’t live forever’ – By John Bowden (The Independent) / Aug 13 2021
Congresswoman is currently suspended from Twitter over Covid misinformation
US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene continued her campaign of spreading misinformation related to Covid-19 after being suspended from Twitter this week.
During an interview with a pro-Trump online broadcasting network called “Real America’s Voice”, Ms Greene falsely claimed that news reports were overhyping a surge of Covid-19 in many states, particularly those where rates of unvaccinated Americans remain high.
While bashing the news media, Ms Greene specifically claimed that hospitals were not facing a steep rise in Covid patients that threatened to overwhelm their facilities, a trend that has made headlines in recent weeks and an assertion that is easily proven false by the real-life situation on the ground in Florida, where more and more hospitals are being forced to cancel elective surgeries as their facilities reach capacity.
