Where are you getting most of your information about the virus pandemic?

Dutch Teletekst (from the public broadcaster).
No sound, no images, just facts in text.
Once in the morning, and once in the early evening.

Ah, and WHO on Instagram.

TV news. Local and national, from US and state governments. Local newspaper.

social media
news websites
friends & family

CDC and WHO websites
research articles

Various places, the last being Mark Levin.

I am part of an industry Business Contingency Planning group that has had a pandemic task force dating back a dozen years or more. As soon as the first cases were reported in Wuhan, they started sending out regular updates.

The reports gather from all kinds of sources, from governments, the CDC, WHO, and news agencies, plus monitoring social media. It’s all about facts, not opinions.

CDC, WHO, Caravanfan. NOT Facebook. Too many stupid people saying stupid things.

New York Times and Apple News conglomerate. Some times PBS Newshour

A couple or three hours of MSNBC or CNN a day. Sometimes a little more if Cuomo is on talking about NY. It’s on in the morning a little, and the background while I work or when I’m eating. I like Fareed on Sundays.

Presidential press conferences, although they are long winded and riddled with Trump complimenting himself, there is some substantive information in there including Burx and/or Fauci addressing some questions or making some sort of statement.

Listening to my governor when he makes a statement.

I go to my state website for statistics. It is very comprehensive, and updated daily. It’s quite impressive. You can click on the map for county stats. You can click on the daily report to see info that was updated at 5:00 the day before. It has information by city, county and state both line item and graphs. You can get detail but county for every single case, meaning each person diagnosed positive, which includes, gender, age if they traveled and where, etc. here’s the link. https://www.floridadisaster.org/covid19/ Maybe every state has something similar.

The TV news seems to mostly be reporting the cumulative numbers, but I am interested in that and daily numbers, and hospitalization rate. All of that I can get on my state website.

Also, @caravanfan and fluther, and my sister. She’s a nurse in NYC, but she isn’t inside the hospital she does admin work, but she talks to the social workers and nurses daily.

On Facebook too, but of course you need to be careful with that.

Once in a while an international channel.

Treatments and current research I do googling and try to go to reliable sites.

Doctor WHO & his daleks.

When this all began I was like @JLeslie and had CNN on for hours. I realized this wasn’t good for my well being so I allow myself five minutes per day to find out what’s going on. I don’t want to be ignorant but too much news isn’t healthy imo.

It takes me five minutes to look at my Facebook feed where I follow my governor and mayor to get the information I find helpful. I will also listen to Dr. Fauci when he speaks.

@Jonsblond It can be too much. Too stressful. I don’t blame you for choosing to do what your doing.

Before the virus I was way down on watching politics or political news stations. I went about 5 years only watching politics on Sundays, except for maybe 5 or ten minutes every few days.

I might start winding it down. What’s hard for me is my sister is in NYC and I’m in a state that’s blossoming with the virus with a very high risk population, so we’re kind of in the thick of it.

Plus, too many around me not heeding the distancing. Luckily, it’s been raining all day today and people are mostly inside their homes. A gift from the universe.

NPR for the most part, but the news is more or less wherever you turn.

Yes, it is everywhere, but the slant varies with the source.

In addition to the sources I listed above, I also get a lot of my news generally from NPR but listen to it in the car and am hardly driving these days.

Twitter (mostly public health researchers, clinicians and sociologists), my state department of health (has an excellent data dashboard), public health and clinical medicine colleagues, WHO, PBS news, interviews with Dr. Fauci.

Even thought public health is my field, I am not running to the CDC or the Surgeon General (ugh) because they are limited by the administration in what they are able to say (and because I cannot stand our Surgeon General).

I’m currently writing a manuscript on the epidemic within my specialty, so also academic peer-reviewed articles from China and health policy think tanks.

I get it from the NY Times, the Atlantic (magazine), The New Yorker (magazine) and news conferences from the NYC Mayor and NYS Governor. NYC is about an hour away from me so it’s news is very relevant. Also the network news at 6 and 11 (NYC news).

I just kind of let it leak in. I don’t got actively searching for information. So MUCH of it is hysterical rumors.