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Pulitzer-winning Laurie Garrett, author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance, talks about the dangers of politicians offering coronavirus misinformation.

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“You know, the other day we had a bright, sunny day as we do today in New York, after many days of gloomy darkness and cold. And I went outside to get some milk and saw the streets were full of people. And they were all young people who’d somehow gotten the message that this is only dangerous for old people.”

Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author the 1995 book The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance. She’s been on the pandemic beat for decades. She was interviewed recently on the new Sustain What? Webcast launched last month by longtime journalist Andrew Revkin. He now runs an initiative on communication and sustainability at Columbia University’s Earth Institute.

“The misinformation that’s come out is just incredible. And a lot of politicians are the major vehicles of this misinformation. They’ve somehow gotten the word that young people can’t get sick, young people can’t die, they won’t be hospitalized. It’s really not a problem. It’s only old people, like me, that can get sick and die, so what the heck, I’ll go ahead and go out and wander around and go jogging and hang out with my friends in the park for a picnic. And if I get infected, it’s no biggie. Well, it is a biggie! Because you can infect others. You can pass your virus on. You perpetuate2 the epidemic3. And, yes, you can get sick. Forty percent of the seriously ill hospitalized people in New York City right now, which is the epicenter of the entire global pandemic at this moment, 40 percent of them are under 50 years of age. So this notion that it’s just old people: dead wrong. And so the consequences of any statement by any leader that isn’t rooted in solid science—or, if the solid science is uncertain, doesn’t state the uncertainty—is socially irresponsible, is costing lives, is actually killing4 people.”

The entire Webcast is archived on YouTube, with the title, “The Press and the Pandemic: Tips from Pulitzer Winner Laurie Garrett.”

—Steve Mirsky

[The above text is a transcript of this podcast.]


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1 transcript JgpzUp     
n.抄本,誊本,副本,肄业证书
参考例句:
  • A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
  • They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。
2 perpetuate Q3Cz2     
v.使永存,使永记不忘
参考例句:
  • This monument was built to perpetuate the memory of the national hero.这个纪念碑建造的意义在于纪念民族英雄永垂不朽。
  • We must perpetuate the system.我们必须将此制度永久保持。
3 epidemic 5iTzz     
n.流行病;盛行;adj.流行性的,流传极广的
参考例句:
  • That kind of epidemic disease has long been stamped out.那种传染病早已绝迹。
  • The authorities tried to localise the epidemic.当局试图把流行病限制在局部范围。
4 killing kpBziQ     
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
参考例句:
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

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