Today: Risk distortion is a problem when it comes to public health.
How do we understand what the real risks are? What's the right way to communicate risk without overselling or underselling the COVID threat? @dropeik, @zeynep and @JenniferNuzzo join. https://wbur.fm/3rydxjm
How do we understand what the real risks are? What's the right way to communicate risk without overselling or underselling the COVID threat? @dropeik, @zeynep and @JenniferNuzzo join. https://wbur.fm/3rydxjm
We're live, talking about risk and COVID-19. Are we getting it all wrong? @dropeik, @zeynep and @JenniferNuzzo join us. https://wbur.fm/3rydxjm
Listen: Risk and COVID-19. Are we talking about it all wrong?
"What I think we fail to do to this day, unfortunately, is to adjust our messaging to our understanding of the risk," @zeynep says. http://wbur.fm/3rydxjm
"What I think we fail to do to this day, unfortunately, is to adjust our messaging to our understanding of the risk," @zeynep says. http://wbur.fm/3rydxjm
. @zeynep on why we should stop giving people binary COVID instructions:
"Giving people ... intuition about transmission mechanisms rather than rules that never work, like six feet or not. Distinguishing indoors and outdoors -- this empowers people." http://wbur.fm/3rydxjm
"Giving people ... intuition about transmission mechanisms rather than rules that never work, like six feet or not. Distinguishing indoors and outdoors -- this empowers people." http://wbur.fm/3rydxjm