Celebrity physician Dr. Drew has apologized for a series of statements he made in a recent video in which he downplayed the novel coronavirus and suggested the reaction to the virus was a “press-induced panic.” “I wish I had gotten it right, but I got it wrong,” Drew said in a video posted over the weekend.

Drew’s apology came after a video made the rounds on the internet with clips from a series of appearances he made over a two-month period downplaying the seriousness of the novel coronavirus, which has killed more than 76,000 people worldwide as of Monday.

The World Health Organization declared the current outbreak of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus disease, a global pandemic on March 11.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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