{"id":6826,"date":"2024-06-12T09:41:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T14:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6826"},"modified":"2024-06-12T09:41:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T14:41:23","slug":"uncertainty-is-indeed-a-bad-word-a-second-opinion-on-pandemic-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/06\/12\/uncertainty-is-indeed-a-bad-word-a-second-opinion-on-pandemic-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Uncertainty&#8217; Is Indeed a Bad Word: A Second Opinion on Pandemic Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\/second-opinions\/110548?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2024-06-09&amp;eun=g1462072d0r&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines%20Evening%202024-06-09&amp;utm_term=NL_Daily_DHE_dual-gmail-definition\">MedPageToday<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\/second-opinions\/110449\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>MedPage Today<\/em>\u00a0op-ed<\/a>\u00a0earlier this week, the authors made a plea for the government to &#8220;communicate about [H5N1] more efficiently and effectively.&#8221; Who could disagree?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But their title opens with a dogmatic statement, &#8220;Uncertainty Isn&#8217;t a Bad Word,&#8221; and the piece calls for our federal agencies to &#8220;communicate what they don&#8217;t know as clearly as what they do know.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This may hold true for enlightened academics, but when it comes to the general public, uncertainty is somewhere between delicate and dangerous cargo. Uncertainty is indeed a bad word for mass communication when it&#8217;s not handled properly.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"  jFDobkwjCW A UedEx ITwT\">  jFDobkwjCW A UedEx ITwT<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MedPageToday In a\u00a0MedPage Today\u00a0op-ed\u00a0earlier this week, the authors made a plea for the government to &#8220;communicate about [H5N1] more efficiently and effectively.&#8221; Who could disagree? But their title opens with a dogmatic statement, &#8220;Uncertainty Isn&#8217;t a Bad Word,&#8221; and the piece calls for our federal agencies to &#8220;communicate what they don&#8217;t know as clearly as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychological-and-sociological-impact"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6827,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826\/revisions\/6827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}