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> I am absolutely baffled at how the media is covering this study, it's basically "front page" or I've seen it as the number 1 news item.

Rather on par with the coverage so far as far as I can tell. The media has been going on about "cases" (i.e. positive) tests and comparing absolute numbers between countries which do not have the same absolute numbers of people.

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Yep and using daily numbers instead of rolling averages. Awful.

Welcome to science reporting in general. Covid reporting hasn't been any worse (maybe even slightly better due to time available to become slightly familiar).

Wait until a new paper mentioning Quantum Teleportation is published to see how bad things can really get.

https://loricism.fandom.com/wiki/Gell-Mann_Amnesia_Effect

On that topic, I found out that using specimen date instead of reporting date (for those health agencies that do that) gives you a far better picture of the trend, since reports can lag a lot due to testing bottlenecks.

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