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Alternate NYT headline:
92 PERCENT OF AMERICANS RECEIVED SECOND COVID SHOT ON TIME, WILDLY EXCEEDING PAST TWO DOSE VACCINE CAMPAIGNS
“Given so much protection comes from the first shot,” one official said, “even the other 8 percent is doing well. It’s an unmitigated success!” https://twitter.com/galvinalmanza/status/1386397677676552198
92 PERCENT OF AMERICANS RECEIVED SECOND COVID SHOT ON TIME, WILDLY EXCEEDING PAST TWO DOSE VACCINE CAMPAIGNS
“Given so much protection comes from the first shot,” one official said, “even the other 8 percent is doing well. It’s an unmitigated success!” https://twitter.com/galvinalmanza/status/1386397677676552198
Like 50 percent of my tweets lately are critiquing the framing of mainstream, well-financed publications which seem to just be shitposting.
If I made a podcast deconstructing framing of news stories and showing why they were bullshit, would you all subscribe?
If I made a podcast deconstructing framing of news stories and showing why they were bullshit, would you all subscribe?
Has nobody at the Times read about how the UK has had one of the fastest (THE fastest??!!) COVID death drops using just one shot for now?
THAT’s all the *8 percent* is in danger of https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-phe-idUSKBN2AM1TY
THAT’s all the *8 percent* is in danger of https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-phe-idUSKBN2AM1TY
Thank you @notdred. 92 percent is something to be concerned about?! It is an AMAZING SUCCESS!!!
I think we have a problem with perfectionism in the US? Or at least media does. It overly weights aberrations. 100% is an unrealistic option & expecting it is a setup for failure! https://twitter.com/boghuma/status/1386492676590157825
I think we have a problem with perfectionism in the US? Or at least media does. It overly weights aberrations. 100% is an unrealistic option & expecting it is a setup for failure! https://twitter.com/boghuma/status/1386492676590157825
Another important point from @e_hernandez8: mask wearing isn’t a failure because it isn’t 100 percent. Not is social distancing. The amount humans have changed lifelong habits and adapted is REMARKABLE! Ask any sociologist! https://twitter.com/e_hernandez8/status/1264178798456643585
My fellow journalists need to be REALLY careful abt conveying scale, proportionately and risk. 92% for a two dose vaccine given to adults is damn near perfect, not negative news. Similarly, six *possible* blood clots/6 million+ w the J & J pause needed strong contextual framing https://twitter.com/thrasherxy/status/1381936102005739534
We journalists—ESPECIALLY those as influential as those the NYT—must stop this all or nothing approach to public health.
Harm reduction is often considered “any positive change.”
92% isn’t even harm reduction—it’s “A” quality work! For the 1st adult vax campaign in decades!
Harm reduction is often considered “any positive change.”
92% isn’t even harm reduction—it’s “A” quality work! For the 1st adult vax campaign in decades!
Close readers are also pointing out
—“nearly 8 percent” could mean closer to 93(!) percent got both
—unclear from story if % could be missing ppl who got shot 1 from Walgreens & 2 while volunteering at a Fed site, who moved between doses (
) & got vaxxed in different cities
—“nearly 8 percent” could mean closer to 93(!) percent got both
—unclear from story if % could be missing ppl who got shot 1 from Walgreens & 2 while volunteering at a Fed site, who moved between doses (
) & got vaxxed in different cities
(I honestly opened this story up worried the novel coronavirus second dose falloff would be more severe than for HPV, HepA or HepB—not that it would be so much less)
