I've seen talk about how the media tends to emphasize negative news about COVID, which I don't doubt is true, but which surely stems in part from the fact that certain public health experts tend to heavily emphasize negative news when talking to the press.
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Check out, for example, this interview with Dr. Michael Osterholm on Meet The Press last week. It's relentlessly negative. He's spinning every fact in the most negative possible light. He's downplaying the effectives of vaccines. It all sounds terrifying. https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-april-04-2021-n1262993 …pic.twitter.com/A6DfuOjzyQ
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This is the same guy who, on Feb. 13, confidently predicted that America was headed toward its "darkest days with this virus." Since then, the 7-day average death total has from 2594 to 755 (per Worldometers).https://davidzweig.medium.com/experts-are-not-oracles-ef9a3ced53b2 …
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Replying to @samuelt22223 @NateSilver538
The vaccines are out pacing it man. It may rise, but not "spike".
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It's a spike in Michigan...
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