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How to count half a million lost lives?
Last March, amid the myriad upheavals and uncertainties that marked early pandemic life, various scientists and public health officials started to model out how many cases and deaths we might be looking at in the long run, and the press, unsurprisingly, took great interest in their work. A team at Imperial College, in London, concluded that the coronavirus could kill upwards of two million people in the US alone should it be allowed to spread unchecked. That number spread like wildfire in headlines (usually alongside the worst-case caveat). On March 29, CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Dr. Anthony Fauci, a new household name, to lay down some predictions; Fauci replied that, with mitigation, the US was likely looking at between one- and two hundred thousand deaths, though he also stressed that such projections aren’t especially helpful. Later the same day, then-president Trump said that if deaths were to end up in the range that Fauci cited, it wou
Typo in UConn s student newspaper gives readers a giggle, break from bleak pandemic news
Martha Shanahan
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The front page of the Daily Campus, UConn s student newspaper, on Friday, February 19, 2021.Contributed by Grace McFadden
There are certain things that just happen in the offices of a daily college newspaper. Pizza stains on newsprint. Fights over Oxford commas. All-nighters.
And, inevitably, typos.
An editor of UConn’s student newspaper learned the hard way last week just how easy it is to change the whole meaning of a story with a slip of the mouse. She inadvertently implied on the front page that some UConn students were happy to get COVID.
This episode aired on February 5, 2020.
For the news, we covered the cancellation of vaccine appointments at UConn Health, the closing of an intersection between Hillside Road and Alumni Drive, a new app called Unmasked Project aimed at promoting mental health and the announcement of a plant-based café.
There were no featured news packages this week.
Undergraduate Student Government President Michael Hernández spoke about his reasoning for vetoing a piece of legislation that would have condemned white supremacy, called on UConn to defund the UCPD and called for the conviction of former President Donald Trump. He also spoke about the culture problems within USG and what he’d like to change before his term comes to an end.