“That void can be filled by anyone with an opinion,” she adds.Īll those conflicting messages, combined with the reality of slow scientific timelines, can exacerbate distrust. This lack of clarity-and sometimes the conflict-in public health messages can filter down to the press and create a vacuum where misleading or unverified information can fester and spread, DiResta says. Why? One reason is that “ scariant” stories drive clicks, and many outlets rely on digital ads, which generate money on the basis of traffic.
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She says that sometimes, news outlets that write about variants are “calling out that the theater is on fire” but neglect to “inform people where the exits of a theater are and how to get there.”
We would stay focused on 'The vaccines work-let's get vaccinated.'" Gigi Kwik Gronvall, Johns Hopkins "If this pandemic had happened 10 years ago we wouldn't be having this conversation. And either way, the variants are all treated the same by doctors.
That means most people who catch covid won’t ever know which variant they got, Kwik Gronvall says. In the US, at least, genetic sequencing is mainly used for broad surveillance-not on a case-by-case basis.
It’s true that delta’s increased transmissibility has forced many jurisdictions to reinstate masking and distancing.īut if you see a headline like “How to tell if you have the delta variant,” you need to know that it’s ultimately an unhelpful way to think about things.
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