Australia’s public broadcaster has been forced to apologise on behalf of prominent health editor and broadcaster Norman Swan for incorrectly linking the deaths of cricketer Shane Warne and Labor Senator Kimberley Kitching to COVID-19.
For much of the pandemic, Swan was a regular public face on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) where he pushed governments to adopt a suppression strategy to deal with the virus, including tough restrictions, mask mandates, and vaccine rollouts.
Swan made the contentious comments last week during a television interview on ABC, where he cited a 2020 study suggesting it was “too much of a coincidence” that both Warne and Kitching died “not long after a COVID infection, and people are reporting sudden deaths after a COVID infection.”…