Tournament: TFA State | Round: 2 | Opponent: Sophia Gallegos | Judge: Phoenix Pittman
Advantage 2 is Pandemics:
Sullivan 21 Margaret Sullivan 3-7-2021 "The media plays a crucial role in battling vaccine misinformation. But here's what not to do." https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/vaccine-misinformation-media/2021/03/05/fd01a0ba-7dbd-11eb-a976-c028a4215c78_story.html (Education: Georgetown University; Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism)Elmer
There are all sorts of ways to counter reluctance to get the coronavirus vaccine.
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implications — is even more consequential. We need to get it right.
Credible News Distribution is key to vaccine adoption – it's the only way to end Pandemics.
Harmon 21 Gerald Harmon 9-27-2021 "Defeating misinformation is key in ending the pandemic" https://www.ama-assn.org/about/leadership/defeating-misinformation-key-ending-pandemic (Gerald E. Harmon, MD, a family medicine specialist having practiced for more than 30 years in coastal South Carolina, became 176th president of the American Medical Association in June 2021. He was first elected to the AMA Board of Trustees in June 2013 and elected board chair in 2018. In addition, Dr. Harmon also served as the secretary of the AMA in 2016.)Elmer
As we confront yet another major surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations across
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those voices that are then amplified through social media and other online channels.
Brainard and Hunter '19 ~Julii Brainard – Dr, Senior Research Associate, Norwich Medical School Honorary Research Fellow, Norwich Medical School Member, Epidemiology and Public Health Member, Public Health and Health Services Research, Paul Hunter - Professor in Medicine, Norwich Medical School Member, Water Security Research Centre Member, Epidemiology and Public Health Member, Public Health and Health Services Research, "Misinformation making a disease outbreak worse: outcomes compared for influenza, monkeypox, and norovirus", 11-12-2019, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0037549719885021~~//pranav
No previous studies have integrated information spread with disease spread to the level of sophistication
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settings, with costs and benefits ideally compared with real world disease reduction.
Pandemics risk extinction - simulations, empirics, and surging connectivity prove.
Kim 21, Kiseong, et al. "Network Analysis to Identify the Risk of Epidemic Spreading." Applied Sciences 11.7 (2021): 2997. (Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST; RandD Center)Re-cut by Elmer
Several epidemics, such as the Black Death and the Spanish flu, have threatened
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to human extinction is crucial in addressing epidemic prevention activities such as quarantine.