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Covid-19: Tweaking terminology in pandemic panic As Brian Pottinger puts it; “If truth is the first casualty in war, statistics are in pandemics.” He adds that Covid-19 happened in the middle of US elections which led the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), based in the United States to adopt an alarmist stance. As he sees it, c linical, epidemiological and phylogenetic data was interpreted to give the worst possible projections. Reporting criteria and processes were changed, distorting numbers. This scenario is almost identical to the Swine Flu outbreak in 2009. In this extract of ‘States of Panic: COVID-19 and the New Medieval’, the author notes that in his view,” no pandemic in the history of our species has proceeded with such a pre-determined diagnostic bias and few with such institutionalized fear. “- Melani Nathan

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