With the arrival of vaccines against COVID-19, journalists, communicators and the fact-checking community around the world have tried their best to cover the vaccination efforts and help the general public understand the current stage of the global pandemic that took hold one year ago.
However, just as with the coronavirus last year, the vaccines have brought their own sets of challenges for reporters and editors needing to explain their development, efficacy, side effects, distribution and more to societies eager for reliable information.
That’s why the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas is offering the new course,
“Covering the COVID-19 vaccine: What journalists need to know,” which will run from March 29 - April 25 2021 and will be offered in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French.
Last week I partook in a large open webinar on COVID-19 vaccination. It was organized for journalists from all over the world by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas in partnership with UNESCO and the World Health Organization and funding from the European Union. In many senses, it was an eye-opener. Some participating experts brought up their concerns about inefficient vaccine delivery in some countries like France, with tens of thousands of doses administered a day where potentially hundreds if not millions could have been delivered, as they do have the supplies or capacities to produce such quantities.
Mounting evidence suggests mink farms in China could be the cradle of Covid-19
Yann Faure et Yves Sciama (Reporterre)
14 janvier 2021 à 09h27,
Mis à jour le 18 janvier 2021 à 09h07
Durée de lecture : 19 minutes
? The «
missing link
» between bats and humans could well be the mink - though the raccoon dog is also suspected. This would explain why China leading world producer of fur appears so determined to tightly control scientific information.
It seems increasingly plausible that Covid-19 originated in fur farms, especially mink, as our investigation shows. At the end of December 2020, Reporterre revealed that the strains responsible for the two epidemic waves that engulfed Europe emerged nearby to a number of large mink farms. Reporterre
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