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Podcast: New Books In Public Health
Episode: Dealing with COVID-19: The Perils of Using Previous Crises as a Reference Point
Description: The recent COVID-19 pandemic has received unprecedented media coverage in the past 3 months. A large part of this coverage includes comparisons of the ongoing crisis to some major crises of the past, including the SARS epidemic of 2002-2003. In a new study titled âWhen the Analogy Breaks: Historical References in Flemish News Media at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemicâ published in Brillâs Journal of Applied History, Dr. Bram De Ridder from KU Leuven, Belgium, analyzes how three Flemish media outlets covered the crisis recently and how their misplaced historical analogies could affect public perception, causing a problem in deali...