Less than two weeks ago, even as he reported that the virus had infected 113,000 people in 111 countries and territories around the world, Dobbs was accusing the "national left-wing media" of "playing up fears of the coronavirus" in order to drive down the stock market. 

More recently, he had taken to echoing Trump by referring to COVID-19 as the "Wuhan virus" and lauding the president for causing a brief market increase with his national emergency declaration a week ago.