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Originally Posted by haertig
We don't hear too much about the AZ vaccine in the USA, since it is not used here.
What we do hear is often times delayed, and driven by a hysterical media looking to grab attention with scary headlines.
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This has been and is true of the media for its entire history, and everywhere. Journalists are not experts in every field that they report on (it's laughable how poorly they report on things that I know well, so why would I assume they do any better at other topics?), and they have a financial motivation to publish quantity over quality.
If there's a topic that one really cares about, they should go as directly to the source as possible, even if it's harder to read. I don't get my medical information from the media, I search PubMed, medrxiv, medical journals, etc and struggle through it and look up the individual words, and look at the funding sources and conflict disclosures, because even the paper abstracts are better sources of info than the general media.