Whats the point of even reading these articles? I saw one yesterday that literally said there is no proof it is less deadly. Everything is conflicting.
I have a friend that repeats narratives adjacent to right wing conspiracy theories sometimes. I always call him out on it and correct him.
The last instance of this was the vaccine mandate. The right-wing narrative conveniently leaves out the testing alternative to vaccination.
I simply told him the complete story and we went and looked up the policy on whitehouse.gov.
This time, and a lot of the times after I correct him says the same thing you ended your comment with. Something like "There's so much conflicting info how do I know what to believe".
The triggering part of this is that him and apparently most of the population of the United States would rather throw up their hands and say I'm confused than look it up.