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Coronavirus Misinformation Is Its Own Deadly Condition

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Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Pulitzer-winning Laurie Garrett, author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance, talks about the dangers of politicians offering coronavirus misinformation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:33.6

This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science.

0:37.2

I'm Steve Merski.

0:38.8

You know, the other day, we had a bright, sunny day as we do today in New York,

0:43.3

after many days of gloomy darkness and cold. And I went outside to get some milk and saw

0:50.8

the streets were full of people. And they were all young people who'd somehow gotten the message that this is only dangerous for old people.

0:59.5

Lori Garrett, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the 1995 book, The Coming Plague,

1:05.5

Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance.

1:08.8

She's been on the pandemic beat for decades.

1:11.4

She was interviewed recently on the new Sustain What webcast,

1:15.9

launched last month by longtime journalist Andrew Revkin.

1:19.2

He now runs an initiative on communication and sustainability

1:22.1

at Columbia University's Earth Institute.

1:25.2

You know, the misinformation that's come out is just incredible.

1:29.3

And a lot of politicians are the major vehicles of this misinformation. They've somehow

1:34.7

gotten the word that young people can't get sick, young people can't die, they won't be

1:39.3

hospitalized. It's really not a problem. It's only old people like me that can get sick and die.

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