Through Thursday morning, CBS has been the only major broadcast network (ABC, CBS, and NBC) to mention on its flagship morning or evening newscasts this week marked five years since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States and the life-altering lockdowns with its ramifications still playing out in American life.
On Tuesday’s CBS Mornings and CBS Mornings Plus, there were even discussions about how so-called experts got things wrong and gave mixed signals plus conceding school closures were a disaster.
Starting with the main show, co-host Gayle King — who was a longtime, dedicated believer in any and all restrictions — recalled “the coronavirus shut down life as we knew it, emptying the city streets and the office buildings, tanking the economy, bringing on social distancing and masking” and “killed more than 1.1 million Americans…
