Fighting the Misinformation Crisis

Prognosis: Misconception

Bloomberg

Health & Fitness, Science

4.1 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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The coronavirus is both a medical problem and a public-health problem – that’s baked into its biology. But the pandemic in the U.S. has been exacerbated by another challenge of our own making: a pervasive atmosphere of distrust. That atmosphere has let misinformation about the virus flourish. That misinformation is often amplified by the man with the country’s loudest megaphone, President Donald Trump. John Tozzi reports that the information crisis has made practicing medicine in a pandemic even more difficult.

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0:31.2	Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 230 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic.
0:40.9	Today's main story?
0:42.9	The rapid spread of virus misinformation has created twin crises for doctors, a pandemic, and an infodemic.
0:53.7	But first, here's what happened in virus news today.
1:03.9	A House panel called the Trump administration's response to the pandemic, inefficient, ineffective, and inequitable.
1:13.3	The 69-page report released by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis
1:19.0	called the virus an American viasco.
1:23.6	The subcommittee said the administration's response is, quote, among the worst failures of leadership in American history.
1:32.8	The report said that relief programs for workers and small businesses were weakened because the administration gave priority to bigger companies, and inadequate financial controls led to significant fraud, waste, and abuse.
1:51.2	The UK's drug regulator is speeding up reviews of COVID-19 vaccines that Pfizer and AstraZeneca are developing.
2:00.6	Britain hopes to approve the first successful shot as quickly as possible.
2:06.4	The UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
2:10.7	started a review of the Pfizer vaccine in recent weeks,
2:14.8	according to a person with knowledge of the situation.
2:18.3	A spokesman for AstraZeneca confirmed that the agency is also conducting an expedited review
2:24.9	of Astra's vaccine, which the company is co-developing with the University of Oxford.
2:32.9	Finally, a federal judge ruled against landlord groups who were seeking to block the U.S.
2:39.1	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Moratorium on evictions due to the
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