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cord-024378-po1bu4v3	CHAKRABORTY, Sweta	How Risk Perceptions, Not Evidence, Have Driven Harmful Policies on COVID-19	2020-04-20		.txt	text/plain	1444	88	51	17, 18 Research shows that media coverage of a public health risk such as COVID-19 can introduce particular risk characteristics that influence public perceptions and therefore become a factor in itself in how the risk is viewed. This along with the social amplification of risk amplifies risk perceptions and can result in the inaccurate overemphasis of primary public health impacts. Specifically, a proactive risk communication plan ahead of an outbreak would have allowed for clear, consistent communication that would have quelled public fears and presumably have allowed evidence-based containment and mitigation policies to take hold. 26 The ripple effects of the policies put in place to mitigate against the primary public health impacts of COVID-19 may very well produce a worse overall outcomes picture. It is evident that existing risk communication research has not been consistently consulted in managing the COVID-19 outbreak, nor has a comprehensive risk-benefit analysis been conducted to prevent worse overall outcomes.	./cache/cord-024378-po1bu4v3.txt	./txt/cord-024378-po1bu4v3.txt