Media allows a rapid and widespread medium from government mandated informational press releases can be spread effectively. This is important as it will always be the governing institutions who retain the most information and resource to contain an ongoing epidemic.

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Con: Although because this information is so rapidly spread, if there are mistakes or incorrect information in the data provided to the media more harm than good may be done if the public follows this, for example, the misconception and debate of whether face masks are necessary for people who are not at a high risk of contracting COVID-19.

The media promotes more fiction than fact about contemporary pandemics

Media allows a rapid and widespread medium from government mandated informational press releases can be spread effectively. This is important as it will always be the governing institutions who retain the most information and resource to contain an ongoing epidemic.

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Media allows a rapid and widespread medium from government mandated informational press releases can be spread effectively. This is important as it will always be the governing institutions who retain the most information and resource to contain an ongoing epidemic.

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