“There is never any practical use in the media to attributing the beginning of an outbreak to one person.”
by Denise-Marie Ordway, Journalist's ResourceThe problem with using ‘patient zero’ and ‘party zero’ in coronavirus news by Denise-Marie Ordway, Journalist's Resource April 3, 2020 Infectious disease researchers have criticized newsrooms for using phrases such as “patient zero” and “party zero” in their coronavirus coverage to describe a person or social event believed to have caused a local COVID-19 outbreak.
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