Simone biles have in common . First, it is time to cover covid in the media. It is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. So the News Coverage needs to reflect that. For example, the word cases doesnt mean the same thing it did a year ago, because a Breakthrough Case when vaccinated, when you are infected and vaccivaccinated, i very, very different than a case when unvaccinated. About the word breakthrough, there is really not enough data to know how often it happens. That is a critical problem. But the data is clear that its causing more deaths. But these squares, 600-million'>600 Million vaccinated adults, there is a tiny, tiny too small box in the corner showing hospitalizations and deaths. Thats the whole story right there in that front page. My big takeaway, reading about the Providence Town Outbreak in the news is no one died. But this article prompted the fact that more people were vaccinated, and it said the more sail salient fact that only a few people ended up in the hospital. Ptown sparked confusion this week, but the problem starts with the cdc and its absolute failure to communicate clearly and effectively. Sloppy News Coverage then makes a bad situation worse. So maybe hospitalizations is a better metric for the media to highlight now, not cases but hospitalizations. This nationwide chart shows that options are rising, but i would argue that just showing this chart is misleading if you dont show more details, because hospitalizations are not rising nearly as quickly in highly vaccinated locales. They are rising quickly in places like lets show this louisiana. Thats a scary line toward the end of that chart. Thats a real problem. The chart is clear. There are tons of unvaccinated adults in states like louisiana that are at real risk. But now lets switch to vermont, the one vaccinated state. Look how dramatic the difference is in this chart. Yes, there are some slight rises in hospitalizations in states like vermont, but the difference is so dramatic and people need to see the differences in these charts. In vermont, there are more neighbors protecting their neighbors. Its as simple as that. This is why the Coverage Need for nuance, because there is no single national story right now about covid19. There are two very different stories. Clearly at this point many unvaccinated adults have made a Choice And Theyve settled on it and theyre not going to be swayed. They dont fear covid, they dont mind getting sick, they think theyre going to be okay. Theyre wrong not to get vaccinated, but they made that choice. Again, even there, there is no single story, because right now daily vaccinations are ticking back up. Some clearly are listening. Lets hope this Fox News Graphic works. Lets Hope Fox viewers see this. Lets hope the message is clear. There are two different covid19 stories in the u. S. Right now. One story about the vaccinated who are essentially safe and another story about the unvaccinated who are not. And we took down the banner because a single Sixword Banner really Cant Capture the complexities of this story right now. With me now for more on that, dr. Schlesinger, epidemiologist. She was a member of the Biden Coalition advisory board, and oliver darcy, cnn Media Reporter who has brand new reporting about the White House and its frustrations with the News Coverage of all of this. Oliver, what have you been hearing this weekend about the White House being frustrated by Hyperbolic Covid headlines . The White House is very frustrated and theyre concerned that the News Media is focusing on these infections and not focusing on the larger issue of people spreading the virus to family, friends and coworkers. So theyve reached out to News Organizations to try to get them to do what your saying, to reset the coverage to focus on the issue. We know the breakthrough infections, from the data weve seen, dont really result in hospitalizations and deaths, its the unvaccinated who are ending up in the icu and needing some medical attention. News Outlets Shouldnt just blindly follow what any White House says, Biden Or Trump or any other, but it is notable that theyre making these complaints, and frankly, what i think theyre trying to do is clean up some mess caused by the cdc. Robby, what is your reaction to the Media Coverage these days, the headlines and all the rest . I think its been utterly shamefully hyperbolic and fear mongering. Its scaring people. The vaccination is adept at preventing serious injury and death. In highly vaccinated areas, were not seeing deaths tick up, were not seeing hospitalizations tick up. In d. C. , where were reimposing Mask Mandates and we have a handful of Serious Covid cases all month, why . It doesnt make any sense. No one is going to follow it. The mayor herself isnt following these mandates. What was the mayor doing last night . She held a Birthday Party before the mandate went into effect, and she presided at a maskless wedding after the mandate was in effect. Weve seen this from time to time from Gavin Newsom to Lori Lightfoot to A Thousand other politicians who cant follow the rules they put in place for everyone else. But now we know these rules are really needless for the vaccinated. Its different for the unvaccinated. But nothing has changed about the vaccinated themselves. I said it last week and ill say it again, we need two different newscasts. The headlines that scare the bejesus for the vaccinated are for the unvaccinated, yet i dont know if theyre tuning in. What are we getting wrong, what are we getting right here . Brian, i think the headline this week should have been this is what our postpandemic future might look like, what we saw in provincetown where we saw very few people getting sick, we had few people in the hospital, no deaths. People have been coveting this. If youre vaccinated. Exactly. We could convert this to the flu if youre vaccinated. Was the problem nine months ago when the vaccine was introduced, was the message not conveyed that, yes, people will still get Covid But Theyll not end up in the hospital . Was there a Communication Failure eight months ago . I think there was an attempt to say that vaccines are not perfect. Theyre highly effective, very safe. Weve repeated this over and over again, but i think there is an expectation that vaccinations be perfect that we dont really expect anything else to be perfect. We dont expect that of pills we take over the counter, so we have this much, much higher standard in our minds for vaccines that are just not realistic. Robby, youre an example of this. You told me a couple days ago you had a Breakthrough Case of covid. What was it like and how are you feeling . Im feeling completely fine. I was mildly sick with kind of a bad cold for about a day, day and a half, and i am vaccinated, so it was unfortunate that i got covid, anyway, but it was a very mild illness that was over, really, in just over 24 hours. I feel completely fine today. I credit the vaccine to help me with that. Everybody should get it, but you shouldnt be so afraid if youre vaccinated. Look at the numbers. You really dont have to be. Its all about Risk Tolerance and what your personal risk is. Robby, maybe breakthrough is part fortunate problem. Breakthrough implies rare. P breakthrough implies something went wrong. Thats not really the premise of the disease. Right, youll end up in the hospital. News coverage almost seems to reflect that maybe cases, like you said, are not the best barometer for how we measure the pandemic anymore. It should be in hospitalizations. If were telling people that hospitalizations are why you get the vaccine, then perhaps we should be measuring hospitalizations and putting more of an emphasis on the fact that high vaccinated areas have low hospitalizations and low vaccinated areas have high hospitalizations, which doesnt really capture the picture very well in 2021. Dr. Gounder, i heard you on Firing Line saying, this is going to be with us for a long time. I think there is some impression by some members of the media that the goal is, goodbye, covid, were never going to think about it again. And thats not realistic. Tell us what is realistic. I think realistic is covid is something we vaccinate along with the other childhood diseases and thats how you convert covid from this deadly disease to something more akin to the flu. At that point in time, we would largely see hospitalizations and deaths among people who are not vaccinated and perhaps the elderly where you have waning immunity over time. I really do think we need to steel ourselves to the idea that were not postpandemic. Ive heard many people in the media say to me over the course of the summer, oh, covid is over. I even heard some public health officials over the summer who were really declaring mission accomplished much too soon. This is going to be with us for a long time, indefinitely, and we have to learn to live with it, and vaccines are how we learn to live with it. Let me just try something out on you and this may not work, but after 9 11, we were all introduced to a Threat Level Idea of red and orange and yellow and green. For a while in this country, the pandemic was red. In certain places right now its red or orange. But in a lot of other places in this country, its red or green. Is that a fairwa way to think about it . There is a threat but less so if youre fully vaccinated. And we need more green areas than red. I think thats right. The way you transition from Red To Green is through vaccination and thats how we bring down that level of threat. So, robby, as we think about the headlines around covid, were seeing lots of Red Headlines when they should actually be yellow or green. Maybe not blue, but you know what im saying. Bring the Threat Level down because it is down for the vaccinated. Studies have shown that the media, and this is a criticism of rightleaning and leftleaning media, in america have tended to be overly negative about the pandemic even at times when that was not called for. In some sense its unavoidable because Bad News sells. News is things that happened, not things that didnt happen. Things are better, nobody died, nobody got sick, i guess doesnt excite people in the same way, but really the media has to be more responsible about it or were going to get exactly what you saw in 9 11, which is security measures. You still have to take off your belt and shoes before you get on a plane. We know its pointless and it doesnt help security whatsoever. Im pretty sure those policies will be in place decades from now even though they will be just as pointless as what the tsa requires from it. Thats very interesting. Security theater, Covid Theater can both have flaws. Robby, thank you. Oliver, dr. Gounder, thank you all. Were covering this every day in our nightly newsletter. Continuing on the point that there is no single national Covid Story right now, there are two different stories. I want to hear what its like for reporters in Hot Spot states where lots of readers dont believe their news. Were going live to three reporters who are covering the three least vaccinated states in the union. Thats next. Or muscle weakness. Can be signs of a life threatening condition. Side effects may include allergic reactions. Neck and injection site pain. Fatigue, and headache. Dont receive botox® if theres a skin infection. Tell your doctor your medical history, Muscle Or Nerve conditions. And medications, including botulinum toxins, as these may increase the risk of serious side effects. Most patients may pay as little as 0 for botox®. So, text to see how you can save. Botox® has been preventing headaches and migraines before they even start for 10 years. So, ask your doctor about botox® today. Vaccine hesitancy, a term we heard six months ago, has faded away. Its about vaccine rejection, Vaccine Refusal at this point, especially in parts of the country where vaccination rates are lowest and skepticism is highest. You see there alabama, mississippi, arkansas, wyoming and louisiana. Lets hear from reporters who are on the socalled front lines in those states who are among the least vaccinated. Well talk to reporters at the clarion ledger, the picune, and a lot of printed physical newspapers as well as visual observation there. Kira, how frustrating is it to cover this story every day and feel like people arent listening . Its really frustrating, because on one hand you have all this information coming from the cdc, nih and people like that. On the other hand you have people in influencer roles or political influence that are arguing against this information. Not only that, we have misinformation floating around on social media. So we all have to report on that and it creates a really confusing voice for our readers, because, obviously, since were the ones reporting it, that makes us the Lightning Rod for people saying, whats really going on . Thats what im wondering. Does it get personal . Lita, can you get backlash for telling the truth . I can get 20 emails saying the numbers are made up, but it goes back to the trust of the source and were the conveyor of that source, and thats what were seeing in alabama. What do you do about that when you get emails from people saying this is made up . There are some people whose minds youre not going to change. There are some that theyre wanting to hear more, and people are frustrated in our state of changing information. Not necessarily misinformation but where do you go for the most accurate information, because it changes every day. Right, right. Emily, i know you recently interviewed people in the field about why they only decided to get vaccinated in july instead of march. What have you heard on the ground . You know, ive heard some surprising things, honestly. I think the Vaccine Hesitation is very nuanced and there are many reasons why people havent gotten it, but ive heard everything from, i just wasnt that scared of it, to i meant to get it but i just didnt, or delta really scared me or i thought i would be able to fight it off. So, you know, reasons are varied, as varied as the people are. I do hear all of you, in one way or another, bringing up misinformation, people telling tall tales and lies. How do you feel, keisha, when youre interviewing people in mississippi who have bought this information . Do you try to present the facts to them neutrally . How do you handle it . You try to be as neutral as possible, but even when you present those facts, people do their own research where its free. Unfortunately, a lot of people try to make a counterargument and it oftentimes leads to a big roadblock because once people have a viewpoint that butts up against what they believe, obviously theyre going to shut down so it makes it supremely difficult in certain situations. Emily, same thing for you . Yeah. I mean, youre there to listen to them, right . Youre there to hear them out, and i find that sometimes i do find myself sharing more resources with these people, more of my personal information about getting the vaccine, yet there are many people. Thats interesting. Yeah, you know, i was with a woman recently at one of these Vaccine Sites and we got the same vaccine, and i could see how nervous she was. And i kind of just told her what happened to me, you know, which was really nothing. Or what didnt happen. Right, right. Maybe what were sharing here can help each other in the Conversation And Help viewers at home. Leada, how did you handle the Misinformation Issues that keisha and emily are describing . One of the things we undertook, because were in one of the least vaccinated states in america, as an alabama media group, we decided to take questions from our audience and just say, what is keeping you from getting this vaccine, and then we broke that question down and went to experts in the state. Experts had a super high local level so it was a local doctor talking about concerns. We broke it down into digestible topics which allowed people to say, im concerned about this. I think were realizing in alabama that information needs to come from the ground up as opposed to the top down. I think the response to that has been a lot more positive rather than just, this is what the State Health Officer told us today. At the end of the day, this is hopefully a way to win the trust of the audience, but clearly there are some folks who dont want to hear what is true and they would rather live in this misinformation bubble. Emily, do you come away feeling, you know, like more or less confident in journalism throughout all this . You know, i dont know. I think yes, people do get their information from what i say might not convince someone, right . But what they say and their friends and their family, those are very convincing things. True. What was said about, you know, hospitals and the person that you know their credentials are from lsu, for example, thats going to convince someone a little bit more, but im that person who is putting that information out there. What about you, keisha . How has covid changed how you view journalism . It made me realize that its a lot tougher of a job than i ever imagined, honestly. I love journalism, i wouldnt be here if i didnt. Reporting this day in and day out and facing those difficulties and trying to inform the public and just having so much backlash, it sometimes makes you question a lot of things. But at the end of the day, it just makes me a little bit hungrier to get the information out there even more, because obviously there is so much misinformation around, somebody has to correct it and thats our job. You have to keep trying. Thank you all for what youre doing in each state. Up next, here on reliable sources, the ad that the u. S. Refused to run, including Mike Lindell. What makes new Salonpas Arthritis Gel so good for Arthritis Pain . Salonpas contains the most prescribed topical pain relief ingredient. Its clinically proven, reduces inflammation and comes in original prescription strength. Salonpas. Its good medicine. You need an ecolab scientific clean here. And you need it here. And here. And here. 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When fox refused to run that one ad, lindell said, im not going to runny ads on your channel anymore. Lindell was one of the top advertisers, often supporting hosts like Tucker Carlson when other hosts rejected him. They spent about 19 Million this year. They have had a mutual beneficial relationship. Lindell sold a lot of mypillows thanks to fox. Now he says hes leaving fox, hes going to do his livestream and try to prove how trump will be reinstated and these delusions are dangerous to democracy. Well see what happens with lindell, and hes being sued and hes countersuing over all these Voter Fraud claims, but his descent into this fantasyland where the Big Lie is allconsuming, where hes selling something he cant possibly deliver, it has repercussions well beyond Fox News. Lets talk about it with jared holt. Hes the Resident Fellow for the digital forensic Research Lab at the atlanta council. In applebaum who just profiled lindell and interviewed him, the title is the Mypillow Guy could really destroy democracy. Ann, thats not subtle. Tell us why he could. I think its important to understand that Mike Lindell is not generous. There have been people like him in history. There have been people so deeply convinced of something that cant possibly be true but have nevertheless put all of their Energy And Money and time in seeking to prove it, and who perceive every reaction, every counterreaction, every attack on themselves as lindell does as further proof that they were right. Hes someone who is going to continue to pursue his elaborate theory about Voter Fraud which involves chinese meddling with machines in all 50 states, something that cant possibly have happened unless he bloelies very deeply and hes going to pursue it until he runs out of money, i presume. It seems that way. He may not succeed, but what he will help to do is loosen further Americas Sense that their democracy works, that their Voter System is secure, that the people who observe and monitor their elections are honest. People are beginning to lose that sense, probably on all sides of the political spectrum, because of these constant attacks, and Hes Somebody who is not going to stop. Jared, when lindell says fox is full of issues, could that hurt fox . It could hurt fox. With all of this misinformation by the gop and former President Trump himself, it seems like the gop is moving further right than Fox News can catch up with. Especially with the threat of lawsuits, and, you know, just appearing completely off base, part of the Trump Following is moving off into its own direction, and with lindell pulling ads from Fox News, im curious to see if that money he was spending there will go towards the kind of Misinformation And Disinformation thats rampant online that hes also involved in. Interesting. Fox has lost him four now. Im skeptical about how long this is going to last. I think hell come back when people stop buying sheets and towels. Certainly the view at fox is they dont need him as much as he needs them. Well see if that is true in months to come. Anne, the Big Lie keeps spreading and doesnt get much attention from mainstream media. Its out there, its googled, its livestreeamed and it seems like lindell is trying to portray President Trump as the be all, end all president. And moisturizers for healthy and hydrated men, skin, relax your body and mind, shower with new dove men. That Delicious Scramble was microwaved . Get outta here. Everybodys a skeptic. Wright brothers . More like, yeah right, brothers get outta here its not crazy. Its a scramble. Just crack an egg. Ive got moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. Now, theres skyrizi. Things are getting clearer. I feel free to bare my skin yeah, thats all me. 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So, jared, what do you call that . Do you have a name for that . Yeah, i think of this as a parallel media universe, almost. If you look at people like Mike Lindell or some of the things coming out of Fox News, it almost seems like theyre on a different world. They came down in a spaceship and theyre not existing in the same reality. But as far as people getting their information who have these ideas, they might as well be. There is this whole series of media operations, of livestreams, facebook pages, twitter accounts that are running parallel to News Media that is trusted and factual and reported, and the two lanes dont touch. You know, folks watching lets underscore that, jared. You think its like two Train Tracks and they do not ever cross at all . They will maybe sometimes overlap a little bit, but most of the time people in this parallel track on the right Wing Side Wont ever encounter information that would counter falsehoods that theyre believing, except in the concept of mockery or cherrypicked out to serve that parallel track in its own way. What i hear you saying is, hey, political reporters, its worse than you think. Its not just about left leaning and right leaning. Its parallel worlds, never the train shall meet. Anne, does this relate what happened on News Max a couple days ago. Mark meadows was on News Max talking about trump like he was the current president. Saying, trump is holding a Cabinet Meeting with Cabinet Members at his golf club, moving guard in a big way. Hes probably just talking about the midterms, referring to the future elections. But its something i see on far right tv, something i see on american news where they talk about trump like hes President Trump, like hes still in power. In that world he is. In their mind he is still the president. He was cheated out of the election. At some point, as soon as next month, he will be reinstated. Thats a deep and widely held belief and its really important that News Channels like yours report on its existence. Thats why i wrote about Mike Lindell, because i felt that people who dont normally read him or follow him should know that a part of the republican party i wouldnt even call them conservatives, but part of the alt media, the Alternative Media genuinely believes this and its not a joke. Their actions will have consequences for the rest of us in due course. Anne and jared, thank you both for the warning. Coming up, a question that i know many people tiptoe around. Were just going to take it head on, the cult of trump. Congresswoman Jackie Speier narrowly escaped the jonestown massacre. She was shot there and left for dead. Shes going to share her thoughts about the cult after the break. , Gas Ranges and grills. And if youre looking for. 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There is no question that you could compare Jim Jones as a Charismatic Leader who would bring his congregation together, force them to do things that were illegal and then took 900 of them into the jungles of ghuyana where over the course of time he convinced them they should die. I can never say they committed suicide because i dont think they were in control of their facu faculties, to be quite honest with you. So you look at Donald Trump, Charismatic Leader, who was able to continue to talk in terms that appealed to those who were disaffected, disillusions and who were looking for something, much like those who became part of Jim Jones congregation, the peoples temple. They were lost souls. And the only difference between Jim Jones and Donald Trump is the fact that we now have social media. So all these people can find themselves in ways he basically was a merchant of deceit. Both of them merchants of deceit. Both of them making people not look at facts, not think independently and sewed a story for them that was destructive. Its scary to hear that when you have observed the trump phenomenon, you have seen similarities to jonestown. It wasnt something i wanted to Connect The Dots to. I wrote my memoir two years ago and did a book tour. That question came up over and over and over again. Then it really forced me to think about it. Then we saw what happened on 6th'>January 6th. How can you not recognize that that was an illegal act, that you were being asked by this Charismatic Leader to go Do Something that was going to be destructive, and you went and did it anyway . After 6th'>January 6th youre saying, you started to see even more of these parallels. Not only did i see more of those parallels, but i then saw it in my own colleagues in congress. The Big Lie has now been embraced by the majority of members on the republican side in the house of representatives. They are now paralyzed to speak truth. They know it. They know that the election was not stolen. They know that it was held properly. They know that there was not massive fraud, and yet they will continue to mouth those words because their leader, Donald Trump, wants to hear them are they in a cult . They may not know theyre in a cult. But, in fact, if they cannot think independently anymore, if they cannot look at the truth and speak the truth, they are i think exhibiting consultlike behavior. Youll hear voices on fox say theyre trying to call every one of the 75 Million Trump Voters terrorists and ratcists, or in this Conversation Theyd say cultists. How do you try to differentiate between people that have totally given in to what trumpism is versus other voters . Do you differentiate . I would say that Trump Voters are on all different levels. A Trump Voter who came out 6th'>January 6th who believed the Big Lie, who then the attacked the capitol, who were looking to assassinate the Vice President and the speaker of the house, they are members of a cult. They have embraced Donald Trump, and they will do anything he wants, even if it is wrong, illegal and harmful to themselves. I dont put every Trump Supporter in that category, no. Far from it. You mentioned lost souls, loneliness, isolation. There have been a couple of writers talking about that this week, michelle goldberg, matt lewis, to name two. Theyre suggesting, what is the link between loneliness, isolation in communities and support from the former president . I think those who find themselves engulfed in cultlike organizations are looking for something. Either theyre isolated and alone, dont have family, theyre looking for a new family, or they have somehow been disillusioned in life. So theyre looking for something that can give them a sense of empowerment. 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