sentences:  In April 2020, he was criticized after an appearance on Fox News with Sean Hannity in which he said that reopening schools that were closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States might be worth the increased number of deaths it could potentially cause.He later said in a video on Twitter that he "misspoke".A number of publications used the incident to make a larger argument that Oz's statements throughout his professional media career often lacked scientific backing.