CV01. Protection: Vaccine Wars, CV02. Humor: Cain's Tweets, CV04. Politics: Disconnected Worldviews, CV05. Economics: Cures are not Worse than the Disease, CV07. Emergence: Schoolcations, CV15. Death: Cozen Numbers, QAnon, DisData, CV16. Consequences, Social Change: Cultural Adaptation, Crow Nation, CV16.1. Journalism Changes, CV20. Communication: HHS Propaganda Campaign, CV23. Polemic, Myphysis: Australia, Burning Down Testing Site, CV27. Learning: Alarm and Over Reassurance about Schools
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CV01. Protection: What If the First Coronavirus Vaccines Aren’t the Best. Louisiana Is ‘Blind’ to Coronavirus as Hurricane Laura Shutters Testing Sites. FDA Commissioner Says Willing to Fast Track Covid-19 Vaccine, Gottlieb Questions FDA Chief's Coronavirus Vaccine Fast Track Comments: Full Approval a '2021 Event'. Operation Warp Speed Officials Cannot See Coronavirus Vaccine Data Early, The deputy chief of staff for policy at HHS sought to reassure reporters that the process of approving any eventual coronavirus vaccine will be the same as for any vaccine. “There is a thing called a Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB), an independent body that is assigned to each clinical trial. We have no insight into the data until the DSMB says we can look at it. They can come back and say, ‘this is not a good vaccine’. They could come back before we even have 30,000 folks enrolled and say ‘we have enough. This looks great’ ”. Alarm as FDA Willing to Issue Covid-19 Vaccine Before Stringent Safety Testing. How the Race for a Covid-19 Vaccine Is Getting Dirty. Experts Call for Independent Commission Separate from FDA to Review Covid-19 Vaccines. A Coronavirus Vaccine: China’s Got One, Russia Does, Too. Will Trump Rush One Out. What Happens If China Gets the Covid-19 Vaccine First.
-A. ADDED West Accepts Moscow Was Right to Approve Covid Vaccine: Russian Official. Most Americans Believe the Covid-19 Vaccine Approval Process Is Driven by Politics, Not Science. Past Disasters Show Why Rushing a Coronavirus Vaccine Now Would Be Colossally Stupid. FDA Promises to Fast Track Cure for Side Effects of Fast Tracked Covid Vaccine CV02. U.S. Refuses to Join 170 Countries Teaming up to Produce a Coronavirus Vaccine, EU Joins Coronavirus Vaccine Alliance COVAX. Covid Vaccine Front Runner Held Back by China’s Spat With Canada.
CV02. Humor: Herman Cain's Twitter Account Claims Coronavirus 'Is Not as Deadly' as Expected after He Dies of the Virus, a month ago CV15. Likely who ever hacked into the account is going for the irony. No idea if Twitter will correct this.
CV04. Politics: Democrats and Republicans Disagree about Covid-19 Facts, in a Divide That Goes Beyond Usual Political Partisanship. In our 2018 paper, Partisan Bias and Expressive Voting, we found that differences arise along party lines even when people vote on the answers to factual questions about politics. Rather than reflecting sincere differences in belief, we found these responses were largely expressive, or a way of affirming political identity.
-A. Our research found that Democrats and Republicans held genuine but different beliefs with questions regarding the Covid-19. Not just about values or policies, but about basic facts. To the extent that members of different parties evaluate differently the seriousness of Covid-19 and our government’s response to it in their voting decisions, our results indicate that this assessment is due to differences in beliefs rather than partisan expression. [Cartoon].
CV05. Economics: Is the Cure Worse than the Disease. County Level Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States. Using county level data on Covid-19 mortality and infections, along with county-level information on the adoption of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in the United States, we examine how the speed of NPI adoption affected Covid-19 mortality. Our estimates suggest that advancing the date of NPI adoption by one day lowers the Covid-19 death rate by 2.4 percent. This finding proves robust to alternative measures of NPI adoption speed, model specifications that control for testing and mobility, and across various samples: national, restricted to the Northeast region, excluding New York, and excluding the Northeast region. We also find that the adoption speed of NPIs is associated with lower infections, as well as lower non COVID mortality, suggesting that these measures slowed contagion and the pace at which the healthcare system might have been overburdened by the pandemic. Finally, NPI adoption speed appears to have been less relevant in Republican counties, suggesting that political ideology might have compromised their efficiency.
-A. MORE: Yes, Lockdowns Are Costly. But the Alternatives Are Worse.
CV07. Emergence: 'Schoolcations CV06' Are the Latest Hotel Trend to Attract Remote Learners. With many students learning remotely, some families are looking at ways to take advantage of what might be a once in a lifetime opportunity: to take their families out of their hometown and on vacation at a time of year when it would typically not be practical. It's a silver lining in what many parents think will be a difficult year ahead. Hotels in the U.S. and Mexico are offering distance learning vacations with everything from dedicated "classroom" space to private tutors to tech support. CV08 CV19 CV27.
CV15. Death: Twitter Removes QAnon Supporter's False Claim about Coronavirus Death Statistics That Trump Had Retweeted =2= =3=, CDC Report on Coronavirus Deaths Underlines Why Virus Is So Dangerous. The “Only 6%” Gambit: the Latest Viral Covid-19 Disinformation, No, Covid Deaths Aren't 'Only 6%' of What's Documented. CDC Has Not Reduced the Death Count Related to Covid-19. Did Covid-19 Cause Only 6% of Coronavirus Deaths? Viral Posts Misrepresent CDC Report. Twitter Removes QAnon Conspiracy Theory Claiming CDC Quietly Updated Covid-19 Numbers. Trump Is Misrepresenting Coronavirus Data Again, and It's Extremely Dangerous, We have disinformation and anecdata, maybe DisData CV06 is needed to cover manipulation of data and misuse of statistics. Secret White House Coronavirus Task Force Reports Contradict Public Claims by Trump, Pence. CV03.
-A. ADDED [Cartoon]. Fauci Shoots down False Claim Only 6 Percent of Coronavirus Deaths Are Legitimate: They Are Real Deaths from Covid-19. Covid-19 Death Skepticism, Explained by a Cognitive Scientist, faulty causal thinking may be driving death toll doubt.
CV16. Consequences, Social Change: Crow Programs Work to Reduce Spread of Virus, and Preserve the Culture. Of billions of people in the world, we only have just shy of 15,000 Crow people. We’re always losing some part of our culture, language and customs – our way of life. If this virus hits home enough it could potentially wipe out entire clans and entire families.
CV16.1. 5 Ways the Covid-19 Pandemic Is Changing Media Relations. 1. Fewer long leads. 2) Nationwide coverage is more accessible. 3) Phone pitching is (becoming) obsolete. 4) Newsletters are on the rise. 5) A picture is worth…the top of the article.
CV20. Communication: HHS Seeks to Spend $250M on Campaign to Inspire Hope on Pandemic.
-A. ADDED HHS Bids out Massive $250M Ad Campaign to Put Hopeful Spin on Coronavirus Pandemic: Report. While it’s not unusual for government agencies to use advertising to promote public health or raise awareness around a consumer issue, the size of the spend and its timing just ahead of the presidential election raised eyebrows.
-B. MORE: House Democrats Probing $250M Coronavirus Messaging Contract. Trump Administration Diverted $300 Million in CDC Funds to Make Advertisements on How to Defeat Despair about the Covid-19 Pandemic. It’s Like Every Red Flag: Trump Ordered HHS Ad Blitz Raises Alarms; Dennis Quaid, CeCe Winans Clarify Intent of Involvement in Covid-19 Campaign Interviews, I did not post the story about Dennis Quaid supporting Trump on Covid, with the previous pattern of manipulation of information I wanted to wait to see what came out after the first report. HHS Ad Blitz Sputters as Celebrities Back Away. 201202-CV29. Not recommended for advertising a business, but possibly an effective message, Funeral Truck in North Carolina Sported “Don’t Get Vaccinated” Slogan in What Turned out to Be an Advertising Agency’s Pro Vaccination Stunt, Did a Funeral Home Advertise Using the Slogan ‘Don’t Get Vaccinated’.
CV23. Polemic, Myphysis: Coronavirus Testing Site Set on Fire in Melbourne's North,
CV27. Learning: How to Avoid Writing Needlessly Alarmist School Reopening Stories. Don’t just give readers a raw number without telling them the larger context. Don’t just give them a percentage increase without telling them the raw numbers, either. Without numerical context, readers may make mistaken assumptions about the situation. Polls and other forms of data can also tell us more than anecdotes, which should be the color around real data. CV03 CV20.
-A. Was unable to find a counter article about “How to Avoid Writing Needlessly Pollyannaish School Reopening Stories”. The two extremes tend to synergize each other into more and more SLAI RIDE 200715-CV02, making it more and more difficult to sort of facts and make good decisions.
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