Kai Kupferschmidt on Nostr: I’ve reported on infectious diseases for 15 years, but during the covid-19 pandemic ...
I’ve reported on infectious diseases for 15 years, but during the covid-19 pandemic and even more during the global outbreak of mpox clade IIb, I was shocked by the amount of misinformation I was seeing. Misinfo had always been part of any outbreak, but this felt different.
I ended up spending almost a year at MIT as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow to try and understand misinformation/disinformation better, to - I hope - be a better infectious disease journalist.
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