No.
It's called checkmate.
We know and the President knows that this virus is a nothingburger. The press, however, does not. If the press continues being divisive shills then the President makes the whole thing take a turn for the worse. Remember, all hell has broken lose over what… a few dead people here and there? Come on.. the more the media sowed discord, the worse the crisis became. If the media continued, when all is said and done we'd be lynching them in the straight.
Essentially, the yapping dog has been brought to heel.
Think it through. This is all so utterly predictable even without Q.