From blood clots to Craig Kelly, is the media reporting Covid responsibly? | Margaret Simons

In a pandemic, messaging matters. Journalists, public health experts and politicians are wrestling with how to exercise responsibility without becoming censors

When the Black Death ravaged Europe in the 1300s there were no newspapers.

When the Spanish flu killed an estimated 100 million worldwide in the early 1900s there were no radio or television news broadcasts, no daily livestreamed press conferences, no computers, email or social media.

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