The Horrible Misreporting of COVID Data: A cautionary tale.

The article presents commentary on misreporting of COVID-19 data in the U.S. with misunderstood component of modern life role of data in decision-making. Topics include News organizations have been misreading data and seeing conscious villainy in the normal irregularities of vaccines that come along...

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Publicado en:	Commentary Vol. 150; no. 2; pp. 30 - 34
Autor principal:	Shapiro, Matt
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Commentary, Inc. Sep2020
Materias:	United States Misinformation Decision making Public health COVID-19 News agencies Irregularities of distribution (Number theory) Real-time computing
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Sumario:	The article presents commentary on misreporting of COVID-19 data in the U.S. with misunderstood component of modern life role of data in decision-making. Topics include News organizations have been misreading data and seeing conscious villainy in the normal irregularities of vaccines that come along with real-time data reporting; and accepting the judgments of the media voices responsible for misinformation and disinformation for how public health data is collected.