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Instead of just interviewing tourists at the Washington Monument about their views on the pandemic, I really wish reporters would make the effort to interview immunocompromised, disabled, & higher risk people who can't even get medical care due to the lack of protections.

Focusing interviews on people who are in tourist spaces introduces a strong selection bias to stories. The people who are most impacted by this pandemic can't even safely access essential services like healthcare and public transport. They are being erased by poor media coverage.

Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:

Here's a great piece by
@kendrawrites on bias in reporting.

"Outlets have amplified voices that helped create a narrative that not only pathologizes those who remain cautious about the disease, but also fail to adequately convey the risks associated with Covid such that many people are unwittingly taking on potentially lifelong risks.

In the process, we’ve failed at our field’s core tenets — to hold power to account and to follow the evidence. "

niemanreports.org/articles/thr

Nieman ReportsThree Years Later, Covid-19 Is Still a Health Threat. Journalism Needs to Reflect That | Nieman ReportsToo much coverage minimizes the health risks researchers attribute to the virus

@luckytran @kendrawrites
I noticed after Omicron was first identified in South Africa (Nov 2021,) the doctor noticed that her hospital was suddenly filled with children, whose SARS-COV2 cases were luckily relatively mild.
News outlets ignored the "children hospitalized" part, and rejoiced over the "mild" adjective.
A little more careful editing would have helped.

@EugestShirley
just a bit of mild mass child hospitalization, yeah? No big