CV03. Information: Unshared White House Coronavirus Task Force Reports, CV05. Economics: Stock Market, CV07. Emergence: Distrust of FDA, Black Doctors Vetting Vaccine, CV10. Spirituality, Philosophy: Battlestar Galactica Quote, Are We Worth Saving, CV11. Exploitation: Misinformation Spreads Faster than Disease, CV15. Death: No Time to Mourn, CV15.1. Imagining 200K Dead, CV17. Uncertainty, Contradictions: CDC Removes Airborne Information, CV20. Communication: Fauci, Apolitical Politics, CV24. Norms: Trash Increase, CV28. Logistics: Response Shortages, CV29. Responsibility, Decision Making: Mexico Status
PDN Introduction.
CV03. Information: The White House Coronavirus Task Force Needs to Stop Hiding its Weekly Reports from the Public. Since June, the White House Coronavirus Task Force has been compiling detailed reports on how Covid-19 is spreading. It has put together a massive, granular, timely data set for tracking and containing the pandemic. These reports would be of enormous benefit to local public health officials, educators, employers, and the public. Yet the task force refuses to share them. Each week, it distributes this painstakingly prepared document to the governors of all 50 states and to the District of Columbia with specific recommendations for curtailing the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, along with progress reports on testing and county-by-county assessments of the prevalence of the coronavirus. But to gain access to the information in these reports, the public has had to rely on leaks, investigative journalists, and inquiries by a House subcommittee.
CV05. Economics: Fear of National Lockdowns Crashing Coronavirus Stock Market Rally. Fed’s Covid-19 Response Could Score Once Embattled Powell Another Term
CV07. Emergence: Not Trusting the FDA, Black Doctors’ Group Creates Panel to Vet Covid-19 Vaccines. As trust in federal health agencies has withered over the last few months, a group of Black physicians has been working on an antidote: creating their own expert task force to independently vet regulators’ decisions about Covid-19 drugs and vaccines as well as government recommendations for curbing the pandemic. Organized by the National Medical Association – founded in 1895 as an answer to racist professional societies excluding Black doctors – the committee is meant to safeguard against any unscientific guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration. Trump's Health Secretary Asserts Control over All New Rules.
CV10. Spirituality, Philosophy: One of the tricks of disinformation is to take a statement made out of context, to give it unintended meaning. However it also can give new insights to a different context. We must not forget that so many sacrificed so much, but sometimes it's too high. When we fought we did it to save ourselves from extinction. But we never answered the question, why. Why are we as a people worth saving. We refuse to accept the responsibility for anything that we've done. We comforted ourselves in the knowledge that it really wasn't our fault, not really. You cannot wash your hands of the things that you've created. Sooner or later, the day comes when you can't hide from the things that you've done anymore.
CV11. Exploitation: Why Covid-19 Misinformation Spread Faster than Pandemic in Early March. Organizations should really be anticipating these false claims rather than be surprised by how many there are. Misinformation is offense, and debunking is defense. So it makes sense that there will be some delay, but it's really important for organizations to plan ahead. What was not pointed out in the article is that information was wanted and so those who did not care about fact (get hits and be trending), or had agendas that could be served with false information, took advantage of the information vacuum. Coronavirus Rumours Only Fill the Vacuum Left Behind by Awful Government Communication. In the Absence of Good Communication, Rumors Fill the Vacuum. CV20.
CV15. Death: She’s Lost Eight People Close to Her to Covid-19, and She Never Really Got to Mourn. CV12.
CV15.1. Why Our Minds Can't Make Sense of Covid-19's Enormous Death Toll. As we reach grim milestones – 200,000 dead in the U.S. and one million globally – our new challenge is overcoming the natural tendency to go numb.
-A. ADDED The Messaging Mess among Trump’s Top Health Officials. It Affects Virtually Nobody: Trump Erases Coronavirus Victims as US Death Toll Hits 200,000 =2=, Trump on America Surpassing 200,000 Coronavirus Deaths: Well, I Think It’s a Shame, Trump Falsely Claims Coronavirus Affects Nobody Young as Death Toll Climbs. Pence Calls 200,000 Covid Deaths a Heartbreaking Milestone but Says Things Could’ve Been Worse, inversely could have been so much better. Trump Views 200,000 Covid-19 Deaths as a PR Problem. We Should View Them as Someone's Loved One. White House Seeks to Change Subject from 200K Covid-19 Deaths. CV20 200917-CV15.1.
CV17. Uncertainty, Contradictions: U.S. CDC Takes down Coronavirus Airborne Transmission Guidance, saying that the draft recommendation was posted in error. Likely the information was not erroneous, but that posting it was not wanted. [Cartoon]. Probably does not need to be noted that when the science said Ebola is not airborne, there was fear mongering to say it was. Now when science says that CV is airborne, there is advocates that say sharing the information will cause panic. CDC Changes, Then Retracts, its Take on Coronavirus Spread. CDC Backtracks on Warning That Coronavirus Is Airborne. No Matter What the CDC Says, Here’s Why Many Scientists Think the Coronavirus Is Airborne. Is Covid-19 Airborne. Epidemiologists Fume as CDC Sows More Public Confusion. as Doctors Worry about an Apocalyptic Fall, the CDC Retracts Covid-19 Info. CDC Says Retracted Posting That Appeared to Change the Agency’s Position on the Aerosolized Spread of Coronavirus Was an Honest Mistake. CV03 CV04 CV18 CV20↓. ADDED After Aerosols Misstep, Former CDC Official Criticizes Agency Over Unclear Messaging.
CV20. Communication: Dr. Anthony Fauci Tells Trevor Noah Trump’s Confused Messages on Covid-19 Are Unfortunate CV17↑. One of the problems of trying to be apolitical in one’s public statements is that they still interpreted through political filters.
CV24. Norms: Hard, Dirty Job: Cities Struggle to Clear Garbage Glut in Stay at Home World. 200629-CV16, 200620-CV26, 200519-CV12A-D, 200511-CV19 -A, 200419-1.1A, 200419-CV26A, <CONT 200322-200112-2¶>1‡*, 200308-2B,
CV28. Logistics: Government Watchdog Finds Supply Shortages Are Harming US Coronavirus Response.
CV29. Responsibility, Decision Making: Mexico Has World's Most Health Worker Deaths from Pandemic, Amnesty International Says, Mexico Downplays Coronavirus Cases among Medical Personnel. 200802-CV15. Mexico States Run out of Death Certificates. It Took Decades to Build Mexico's Middle Class. The Coronavirus Could Demolish It. Mexico Says 122,765 Extra People Died During Pandemic in Excess Deaths Study. Skepticism, Fear Help Fuel Virus on Mexico City's Outskirts. Fear of Hospitals Means Some Mexicans Prefer to Die at Home. 200830-CV29.
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