https://news.yahoo.com/fox-news-reportedly-fears-early-114530961.html
Fox News reportedly fears its early downplaying of COVID-19 leaves it open to lawsuits
Foxニュースは新コロナウイルスを「詐欺」と呼んで重大性を無視していたニュースショーの
ホストのTrish Reganと距離を置くと発表。伝聞によれば経営陣はこの件でウイルス患者から
の訴訟を恐れるためという　
March 30, 2020
Fox Business announced Friday that it has "parted ways" with Trish Regan, a prime
time host who gained notoriety for suggesting on her March 9 show that the COVID-19
coronavirus was a politically motivated "scam." The decision "took some journalists
and anchors at the network by surprise," The New York Times reports, because "Fox
executives are accustomed to withstanding public pressure, and rarely make personnel
moves that can be construed as validating criticisms of the network."

Fox Business wished Regan the best and said the network "will continue our reduced
live primetime schedule for the foreseeable future" to focus on "the coronavirus
crisis." On MNSBC Sunday morning, Vanity Fair's Gabriel Sherman said ousting Regan
appears to be part of a larger effort to limit legal liability tied to the disconnect
between Fox's public and private responses to the pandemic.
In early March, "Fox News tried to do their original playbook, which was dismiss it
as a hoax, say that this is another partisan attempt by Democrats to hurt Donald Trump,
and this was the case where they could not prevent reality," Sherman said. "Fox News
is a very powerful media organization, but it cannot stop people from dropping dead."
He added:

When I've been talking to Fox insiders over the last few days, there's a real concern
inside the network that their early downplaying of the coronavirus actually exposes
Fox News to potential legal action by viewers who maybe were misled and actually have
died from this. I've heard Trish Regan's being taken off the air is, you know,
reflective of this concern that Fox News is in big trouble by downplaying this virus.
... I think this is a case where Fox's coverage, if it actually winds up being proved
that people died because of it, this is a new terrain in terms of Fox being possibly
held liable for their actions. [Gabriel Sherman, MSNBC]