NPR is once again publishing irresponsible misleading garbage.
An entire strain of the flu was not eliminated "thanks to covid" it was eliminated because everyone collectively masked and took measures that halted the spread of airborne disease.
Think how many viruses and people could be saved if people just fucking masked, we upgraded ventilation, and took airborne disease seriously.
But NPR will never put that in a headline.
Snappy head, that!
Detail goes in the body text. First paragraph, perhaps.
@midgephoto @KevinFreitas @taylorlorenz
In this case, the information suggested was in the 4th sentence.
@stpaultim @midgephoto @taylorlorenz Definitely, I read it. My agreement is that not everyone reads the article but skims headlines and may say to a friend, “Yeah, I saw an article that said…” (which I’ve certainly caught myself doing sometimes)
Headline writing is more art than science but when it involves something like the COVID pandemic a little over-specification/clarity seems warranted.
@KevinFreitas @stpaultim @taylorlorenz
Always fair game to try to do better than the sub who wrote it and the editor who accepted it.
The best one ever was a New York paper which managed
"Headless Body Found in Topless Bar"
Taylor Lorenz
Kevin Freitas
a fading echo
Tim Erickson, @stpaultim