Apoorva Mandavilli keeps making mistakes at the New York Times to exaggerate the risk of COVID to keep Americans scared
This is not journalism but activism
Apoorva Mandavilli is hell bent on keeping Americans scared of COVID even if that means publishing falsehoods. Here is the latest.
She can’t even report the number of Americans who died WITH covid per week accurately. In a prior essay, I detail her COVID errors and show that these are one-sided. She tends to fear-monger about the virus. See those e.g. here.
Apoorva Mandavilli is a terrible science reporter working at the New York Times
Recently, I read an article by Apoorva Mandavilli— the New York Times science reporter. I will come to that example at the end of this piece, but it just reminded me that she is incompetent as a science journalist. She has her own views on covid policy. She is pro mask, pro boosting kids, and pro school shutdown. She seems as if she favors partisan D…
It isn’t just factual errors. Even the framing of her recent article is biased.
This week the CDC considered removing the 5 day requirement for isolation post COVID. A curious reporter might ask, “Hmmm, among all people who had covid this last month, what % tested for COVID, and what % of those isolated for 5 days?”
Were people even following the CDCs policy?
If the answer is no one is testing and no one is isolating, then the policy change is negligible— as no one was doing it anyway. That’s not what we got.
Instead the New York Times, Apoorva Mandavilli believes COVID remains a big threat, and her article is entirely critical of the proposed rule change. She laments the proposed policy change and cites a willing band of selective quotes, but she doesn’t actually provide data.
She can’t even ask the first question: was anyone following the policy to begin with.
When she does provide statistics, she gets is horrifically wrong. How is this acceptable? Let’s not forget her other comments. She refused to take lab leak seriously, and condemned it as racist.
She was wrong about hospitalizations
She was wrong about diagnosis vs deaths
And of course, she is so biased she got school closure wrong and her reporting contributed to massive harm to generation of kids.
A decent NY Times would relieve her of duty.
Is Apoorva Mandavilla an avatar or a real person? The acts as an avatar who is really a mouthpiece fo the deep state. Only the most gullible readers from The NY Times (and it appears there are many of them) would believe the horrible journalism this pseudo-journalist publishes. I canceled my subscription to the New York Times in 2020 precisely because of fake journalists like Mandavilla.
Apoorva wants to have a disinformation governance board censor or imprison anyone who disagrees with her. We need to continue mocking commissars like her and scary poppins: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/nina-jankowicz-ministry-of-truth-scary-poppins-