Journalists’ frequent lack of confidence to engage with numbers is concerning at this time of pandemic and climate crisis. How can newsrooms address this challenge, asks @lubakassova?
Science and journalism: building alliances for future health crises
2020-12-17. Due to the havoc caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the scientific community faces a few common questions from around the world: Whatâs next? Will another pandemic strike? And if so, how bad would it be?
| December 17, 2020
While predictions are difficult, scientists are almost certain that, given the increasing frequency at which epidemics have been occurring across the world, there is a high likelihood of another pandemic in the future.
Apart from the health aspects of it, what makes the likelihood of another pandemic scarier is the chances of it triggering another infodemic, similar to that set off by the coronavirus pandemic. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), an infodemic is an overabundance of information, both online and offline, which includes deliberate attempts to disseminate wrong information to undermine the public health response and advance alternative agendas of gro