Dr. Lucky Tran Mar 15, 2024
Gonna be real hard to build trust in public health if the media keeps doing stuff like this:
Show threadDr. Lucky Tran Mar 15, 2024

The article on the left above is bunk, and amplifies a false claim from an unpublished non-peer reviewed abstract.

Read this article, which gives a more truthful perspective: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/15/long-covid-symptoms-cdc

‘Alarming’ rise in Americans with long Covid symptoms

CDC data shows nearly 18m people could be living with long Covid even as health agency relaxes isolation recommendations

The Guardian
Show threadBruce Mirken
@luckytran Mass media coverage of #health is 90% terrible, and getting worse in the era of clickbait.
Mar 15, 2024 at 10:55pmWeb
Show threadFifi LamouraMar 15, 2024
@BruceMirken @luckytran This is partly because of the sorts of press releases coming out of both universities and corporations, which the media reprints uncritically because they don't have proper science journalists or even regular journalists who aren't prone to swallowing pseudoscience and hype uncritically. TV news is the worst about this but print publications have gotten increasingly pathetic too.
Show threadBruce MirkenMar 16, 2024
@fifilamoura @luckytran They've long been bad, but staff cuts and the push for clicks have made it worse.