German-American journalist | Professor of the Practice & Strategy Director @Brown_SPH | Advisory Board, Trust for Trauma Journalism & @riffreporter | Nieman '01
May 14, 2022 • 34 tweets • 11 min read
As we mark 1 mill. Covid deaths this weekend, we launched a new dashboard that delivers a hard truth: about every second person who died from Covid-19 since vaccines became available could have been saved by – yes, vaccines. A 🧵about data, people & trust npr.org/sections/healt…
First, the data. Here is what we did: Let’s say you live in Tennessee. At some point in April 2021, people were no longer competing to get Covid shots in your state – supply outstripped demand.
But what if people had kept coming? /2
Sep 8, 2021 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
So true. Just came back from Germany, where testing IS a public good. Let me tell you a bit about how that works, and how it keeps the country running. /1
First, testing is free for anyone with an address in the country. Don't have that? You can still get an official lab test for between $15-40. Or you can buy a rapid test anywhere--grocery store, CVS, the mall -- for 95 cents. /2
Jun 24, 2021 • 20 tweets • 15 min read
This is true.👇The pandemic has brought scientific conversations into the limelight. (Yay!) Our new media ecosystem puts these conversation in front of a broad public, often without the translation, context & nuance provided by journalists and comms experts. (Yikes!) 1/
Talking about "vaccine hesitancy' among researchers is one thing -- people in the room know what the concept stands for. Using the term broadly all of a sudden puts a label on people who haven't been able to get the vaccine yet, or are unsure about the vaccine. 2/
Apr 13, 2021 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Here is how you can make a difference today in the frenzy around the J&J pause announcement:
Immediately retire the term "vaccine hesitancy."
It's become a catch-all that misrepresents, blames people over systems, and doesn't help anything.
A brief thread
Let's start here: Millions of Americans are eager to get vaccinated every day. Among those who are not yet ready, most are considering their choices & have important questions about COVID vaccines. We want to answer those Qs every day, in all languages spoken, on all platforms /1
Jul 15, 2020 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
So, the triple whopper of 1) the Peter Navarro op-ed, 2) the CDC being stripped of it's role as the COVID data collector, and 3) director Redfield saying spikes in the south are due to Northerners traveling South (in the summer!) kept me up until 3 a.m. Let's look at this 1/
The Navarro op-ed, which I will not repost so no more traffic to it, should see the fate of the Mike Pence op-ed and be denounced. It isn't opinion but lies and even peddles hydroxychloroquine again. And @USATODAY just puts a disclaimer at the end! 2/
