Study: Covid-19 reporting on scientific studies ‘tempered’ results instead of exaggerating them
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Even though media outlets relied on journalists without science backgrounds during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, their stories tended to temper claims rather than exaggerate the conclusions of studies on masking, spread and who was getting sick and why. A recent study by two University of Michigan School of Information faculty members found that