Fox News and Facebook will be hosting a virtual town hall on the coronavirus pandemic using a video-calling device from the social media company. According to a report from The Verge, the April 2 event will be moderated by “straight news” anchor Martha MacCallum and will feature appearances from White House coronavirus task force members, including Dr. Deborah Birx and Surgeon General Jerome Adams, as well as Mike Rowe, former host of the television show Dirty Jobs.

In recent weeks, Rowe has used Facebook to downplay the risks of COVID-19. In a March 19 post to his Facebook page, which has over 5.6 million followers, Rowe criticized nationwide social distancing efforts and temporary closures of nonessential businesses, saying, “I am concerned that the medicine we’re prescribing might turn out to be more deadly than the virus we’re trying to kill.” Leaning on the catchphrase “Safety Third” from a previous hour-long special he hosted, Rowe also decried “the unintended consequences of ranking Safety above everything else,” which he said is “precisely what our leaders are doing right now.” He asked his fans to imagine if society treated automobile deaths “with the same frenzied, up-to-the minute drama as each new virus infection. … Would any of us ever drive again?” Rowe continued: