mo4ch:>Reuters issues correction, deletes tweet after backlash for reporting ‘just 1 American with coronavirus in hospital: VP Pence’ | Mo4ch News

Reuters raised quite a few eyebrows, invoking a storm of online mockery after it posted an ambiguous tweet about Mike Pence’s handling of the coronavirus crisis, prompting some to fear for the VP’s health.Punctuation is important, especially in the middle of a global health crisis, and Reuters learned this the hard way after it got pilloried by netizens for leaving too much room for interpretation in a recent tweet about the coronavirus situation in the US.“Just one American with coronavirus still in hospital: Vice President Pence,” the agency reported early on Saturday in an attempt to convey the words of Pence, who was put in charge of coronavirus mitigation efforts by US President Donald Trump.Also on rt.comTrump appoints VP Pence to lead coronavirus response, says US ‘totally prepared’However, while Pence’s statement was supposed to reassure Americans, informing them that out of dozens of confirmed cases in the US, only one person remains in the hospital, the message was entirely …