{"title":"Telecommunications health and safety: Pitting politics against science: Conspiracy or groupthink","authors":"James C. Lin;James C. Lin","doi":"10.23919/URSIRSB.2020.9663135","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The onset of the Coronavirus in early 2020, lasting through the end of the year and beyond, has undoubtedly rendered 2020 an incredible year in many ways. The COVID-19 coronavirus has caused a devastating global pandemic, with rapidly increasing case counts and deaths worldwide. The number of confirmed cases and fatalities exceed 83,113,878 and 1,812,218 globally. In the US, there were 19,821,487 and 343,818 confirmed cases and deaths as of the end of 2020 [1]. It boggles the mind how COVID-19 descended into a conspiracy theory, pitting politics against science, while millions of lives are lost and so many more are suffering from grief and pain, pointlessly. It does not seem to make sense!","PeriodicalId":101270,"journal":{"name":"URSI Radio Science Bulletin","volume":"2020 375","pages":"65-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/7873543/9663119/09663135.pdf","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"URSI Radio Science Bulletin","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9663135/","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The onset of the Coronavirus in early 2020, lasting through the end of the year and beyond, has undoubtedly rendered 2020 an incredible year in many ways. The COVID-19 coronavirus has caused a devastating global pandemic, with rapidly increasing case counts and deaths worldwide. The number of confirmed cases and fatalities exceed 83,113,878 and 1,812,218 globally. In the US, there were 19,821,487 and 343,818 confirmed cases and deaths as of the end of 2020 [1]. It boggles the mind how COVID-19 descended into a conspiracy theory, pitting politics against science, while millions of lives are lost and so many more are suffering from grief and pain, pointlessly. It does not seem to make sense!