Bill O'Reilly here, Friday, February 28, 2020.

You are listening to the O'Reilly update.

Here's what's happening across our nation.

President Trump addressed the nation this week over growing fears of the coronavirus.

Telling Americans the disease right now poses little risk and a vaccine is being developed.

His news conference came just hours after the Centers for Disease Control and the

World Health Organization issued statement saying the virus will likely reach pandemic

levels within weeks.

That's all over the world.

In typical Trump fashion, the president claims the media's coverage of the illness may be

intended to make him look bad and spook the global financial markets.

Predictably CNN called his comments a war on expertise, but there is no question the

media is hyping the coronavirus in America.

Now whether they're doing so to hurt the Trump administration is subject to debate.

But let's forget politics for a few moments.

Here's what we actually know about the coronavirus.

The first outbreak began in eastern China somewhere around Christmas time.

The Communist government tried to hide it for weeks before publicly admitting there was

a problem.

Because believe the virus originated in bats living near a fish market frequented by more

than a half million people a day.

But others think the virus was being weaponized by the Chinese and got out of the lab.

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