After considerable public outcry, Sinclair Broadcasting has pulled the upcoming episode of former Fox “News” commentator’s show “America This Week” that featured a conspiracy theorist claiming Dr. Anthony Fauci was responsible for the coronavirus.
After further review, we have decided to delay this episode's airing. We will spend the coming days bringing together other viewpoints and provide additional context. All stations have been notified not to air this and will instead be re-airing last week’s episode in its place.
— Sinclair, Inc. (@WeAreSinclair) July 25, 2020
The episode’s guest, Dr. Judy Mikovits, made an unsubstantiated claim that Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, somehow directed the development of the novel coronavirus in a Wuhan, China research facility, insinuating that Fauci was responsible for the current pandemic.