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Corona care: stay up to date. The experts aren’t infallible – let alone the media

27 March 2020

3:28 PM

27 March 2020

3:28 PM

There are a lot of basic data errors being made in the media as we try to get our head around the scale of the chicomvirus and the necessary response.

Many of those mistakes, such as this one by Dr Daniel Horn, an expert in population health at Harvard Medical School who is leading preparations at Massachusetts General Hospital, writing in the New York Times about the genuine concern over ventilator capacity, are causing alarm.

The New England Journal of Medicine study Dr Horn cites found that 2.3

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