At a time when doctors, nurses and health care professionals are working to exhaustion and risking their own safety to treat the COVID-19 outbreak, Fox News and other pro-Trump media outlets have repeatedly given a platform to dubious coronavirus experts with phony or misidentified medical credentials.

This week, Fox News host Laura Ingraham featured Dr. William Grace, who was billed as an oncologist with Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, to talk about the use of hydroxychloroquine an unproven drug treatment that President Donald Trump has repeatedly praised.

Grace talked about the situation in the trenches and suggested that he had been administering hydroxychloroquine treatment, saying were all using it, especially for desperately ill people.

But while Grace is a doctor, he is not an employee of Lenox Hill Hospital, and it is unclear what firsthand knowledge he has of the crisis.

He is not employed by Lenox Hill Hospital or Northwell. He is a private physician who has admitting privileges. His views are his own and do not represent those of our organization, a spokesperson from Lenox Hill told HuffPost.

Grace did not respond to HuffPosts request for comment on how he is involved in treating coronavirus, whether he has personally administered hydroxychloroquine or how he came to be identified as an employee of Lenox Hill.

Fox News issued a correction on one article citing Grace, noting it had incorrectly stated his relationship with the hospital. But another post with the transcript of Ingrahams segment remains online without correction. Ingraham tweeted Graces claims about Lenox Hill, which were widely shared and picked up by other outlets. Ingraham did not issue a correction or delete her tweets.

Ingrahams fellow Fox News host Tucker Carlson who has reportedly directly advised the president on his coronavirus response featured Gregory Rigano, a huckster who falsely claimed to be affiliated with Stanford University School of Medicine and several other institutions while promoting a self-published Google Doc paper on the benefits of chloroquine.

Carlson and right-wing radio host Glenn Beck both listed him as an adviser to Stanford a claim that the university has publicly refuted and their segments remain online without any correction.

While most of the medical community sounds the alarm about the virus and urges the public to do whatever it can to slow the spread, the pro-Trump media has backed the White House narrative that Trump has the crisis under control and that social distancing measures can be lifted sooner than health officials advise.

Few experts agree with that course of action. But to prop up Trumps claims whatever they may be at the time some outlets are giving airtime to unreliable sources or sharing views outside the norm of the medical community.

Right-wing hosts have featured experts giving questionable advice that supports whatever Trumps position is on the virus at the given time. On Sean Hannity s Fox News show, contributor Dr. Marc Siegel claimed earlier this month that this virus should be compared to the flu. Because at worst, at worst, worst-case scenario, it could be the flu.

Medical experts and public health officials have widely condemned the comparison with the seasonal flu as inaccurate and downplaying the danger of the virus. Siegel also falsely stated that 300,000 people died of H1N1 in the United States alone during the 2009 outbreak. (The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates around 284,000 people died worldwide from the H1N1 virus outbreak.)

Fox News has also repeatedly hosted talk show host and Trump health council adviser Dr. Mehmet Oz, who on Monday claimed without evidence during Fox & Friends that I think a lot of doctors now are feeling the worry, the panic about coronavirus is going to be worse than the actual coronavirus for them.

For the first few months, we were saying, Guys, wake up, this is a problem. Now the medical community is saying Step it back for a second, youre going to be fine, Oz said.