{"id":110472,"date":"2020-07-25T18:22:22","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T01:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/germanys-coronavirus-response-is-a-master-class-in-science-communication"},"modified":"2020-07-25T18:22:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T01:22:22","slug":"germanys-coronavirus-response-is-a-master-class-in-science-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/germanys-coronavirus-response-is-a-master-class-in-science-communication","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s coronavirus response is a master class in science communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/germanys-coronavirus-response-is-a-master-class-in-science-communication.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What changed things for Germany? A handful of prominent scientists communicating regularly and openly with the public. (via CNBC)\u2026and a leader who is a scientist.<\/p>\n<p>Germany, like many other countries, had a contingent of people who fought lockdowns and argued that Covid-19 was a hoax. But it also had a handful of prominent scientists communicating regularly and openly with the public. That played a huge role in drowning out rumors and misinformation, locals tell CNBC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a great educational system and everyone has access to it,\u201d said Dennis Traub, a tech worker in Hamburg, Germany. \u201cSo I believe that many people and the majority listened to both sides and one of those sides sounded much more reasonable.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Germany stood out for its strong science communication. For months, its top podcast was \u2018Der Coronavirus,\u2019 which provided an update on the disease from a top virologist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What changed things for Germany? A handful of prominent scientists communicating regularly and openly with the public. (via CNBC)\u2026and a leader who is a scientist. Germany, like many other countries, had a contingent of people who fought lockdowns and argued that Covid-19 was a hoax. But it also had a handful of prominent scientists communicating [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}