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πŸ—žοΈ Story file #158

Pneumonic plague outbreak reported in multiple states

Oct 6, 3 PM ET to Oct 7, 5 AM ET

πŸ‘£ How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

  1. Oct 6, 3 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Epoch Times
  2. Oct 6, 10 PM ETpeak: on 7 front pages

πŸ“° Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 6, 4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PMOct 72 AM4 AM47leftcenterright
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 6, 3 PM to Oct 7, 5 AM ET (peak 7), by the outlets' lean: left Β· center Β· right
Oct 5, 6 PMOct 66 AM12 PM6 PMOct 7News NationNews NationNews Nation, Oct 5, 1:00 PM ET: Pneumonic plague: What is it and how dangerous can it be?AxiosAxiosAxios, Oct 5, 2:00 PM ET: How pneumonic plague spreads, and how it is and isn't like COVIDThe HillThe HillThe Hill, Oct 5, 2:00 PM ET: How dangerous is the pneumonic plague?CNNCNNCNN, Oct 5, 3:00 PM ET: What is pneumonic plague and how dangerous is it?NBC NewsNBC NewsNBC News, Oct 6, 10:00 AM ET: What to know about the pneumonic plagueThe Epoch TimesThe Epoch TimesThe Epoch Times, Oct 6, 3:00 PM ET: What Is the Pneumonic Plague and How Dangerous Is It?BBCBBCBBC, Oct 6, 10:00 PM ET: What is pneumonic plague and how does it spread?
Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

πŸ“Œ linked by aggregators: Google News

Every outlet's first headline (7), left to right by AllSides rating

πŸ“‘ Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

πŸŽ™οΈ Shows, investigators, satire

πŸŽ™οΈ πŸ“Ί Secular Talk πŸ“Ί Ben Shapiro πŸŽ™οΈ Morning Wire πŸ“Ί David Pakman Show

🧢 Retelling

what people online made of it

πŸ¦— Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

πŸ—£οΈ names in it: Pneumonic Plague

πŸ”Ž Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧡 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.