{"id":4010,"date":"2021-12-09T10:46:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T08:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/?p=4010"},"modified":"2021-12-09T10:46:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T08:46:29","slug":"covid-19-vaccination-mortality-and-vulnerability-to-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/?p=4010&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: vaccination, mortality and vulnerability to fake news"},"content":{"rendered":"

The countries, which are more vulnerable to fake news and \u2018post truth\u2019, have generally lower vaccination rates and higher Covid-19 mortality rates. There is clearly a geographic pattern with Southeast and Central and Eastern European countries affected by higher Covid-19 mortality rates, lower vaccination rates, and at the same time lower media literacy scores compared to their counterparts to the West of the continent.<\/p>\n

These are the findings of the comparison between the results of the Media Literacy Index 2021 on the one hand and on the other hand the full vaccination uptake (%) and mortality rate from Covid-19 in the 27 countries in the EU.<\/p>\n

The graphs below show that there is generally – with a few exceptions – a correlation between the Media Literacy Index scores on the one hand and vaccination and Covid-19 death rates on the other hand.<\/p>\n

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Bulgaria ranks first in mortality rate among these 27 European countries, ranks last in vaccination rate, and is last among the EU countries in the Media Literacy Index.<\/p>\n

The Media Literacy Index of OSIS measures the potential vulnerability of a society to fake news and the \u2018post\u2019 truth in 35 European countries with the results presented in scores from 0-100, lowest to highest score (more information here https:\/\/osis.bg\/?p=3750&lang=en<\/a><\/strong> ).<\/p>\n

The cumulative uptake (%) full vaccination is based on data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (https:\/\/www.ecdc.europa.eu\/en\/covid-19\/data<\/a> ) as of 7 December 2021.<\/p>\n

The mortality rate is based on own calculations and data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (https:\/\/www.ecdc.europa.eu\/en\/covid-19\/data<\/a> ), presenting the number of deaths caused by Covid-19 per 20,000 people (i.e. country\u2019s general population) as of 7 December 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The countries, which are more vulnerable to fake news and \u2018post truth\u2019, have generally lower vaccination rates and higher Covid-19 mortality rates. There is clearly a geographic pattern with Southeast and Central and Eastern European countries affected by higher Covid-19 mortality rates, lower vaccination rates, and at the same time lower media literacy scores compared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[186],"class_list":["post-4010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-facts-and-figures","tag-media-literacy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osis.bg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}