2232021 topic using sources myth or fact - the pandemic

2/23/2021 Topic: Using Sources - Myth or Fact - The
Pandemic?
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This is a graded discussion: 20 points possible
due Feb 21
Using Sources - Myth or Fact - The Pandemic? 25 31
For the first post - Due Thursday Night: (300 Words)
1. Post one myth or fact related to the pandemic that you have
heard recently, and if you
think it is true or not. Keep your post to this topic only.
2. Google it, click on the first source that comes up and
summarize if the sources is
concluding myth fact, or undetermined.
3. What is your first impression of the credibility of the source?
4. Add the full citation to the bottom of your post using MLA
format (see bottom of this page
for the format).
For the second posts (300 words)- Due Sunday Night:
1. Choose at least one facts or myths posted by another student.
(One student)

2. For the posted myth or fact, do your own background
research using at least one source
and summarize what you found.
3. Using the 4 tips for evaluating sources, fully evaluate your
source using 1-4.
4. What can you conclude about the reliability of the source?
5. Include full citations for all sources.
How to Cite Web Sources: MLA - See also Library Research
Guide on Canvas menu
The following is based on information from Shatford Library.
For more information on citing sources go to Citation
Style: MLA Style (http://libguides.pasadena.edu/citing/mla) .
General format: Author Last Name, First Name. "Title of Page
or Posting." Title of Web Site. Sponsor or publisher
of site, Copyright or Last Updated Day Month Year. Web.
Access Day Month Year.
Example citations for web pages:
"Cloning Myths." Learn.Genetics - Genetic Science Learning
Center. University of Utah Health Sciences, 2014. Web.
15 May 2014.
Luscombe, Belinda. "Ten Things You Didn’t Know About the
Gender Gap." Time.com. Time Inc., 11 Nov. 2013. Web.
9 Jan. 2014.
If the website is missing any of the required information, skip
that part of the citation (the author, for example). If no
sponsor or publisher is given, use n.p. in your citation. If no
copyright or date is given, use n.d.

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Changwoo Park
Dr. Elisabeth Choate-Ciletti
Physical Sciences 2
18 February 2021
The Pandemic
Three months after the coronavirus outbreak was officially
confirmed in Wuhan, China in
2019, the epidemic spread to the world and drove the entire
planet into fear and blockade.

So far, the coronavirus population has exceeded 110 million
worldwide and the death toll
has exceeded 2.43 million. With the latest pandemic, I searched
for the 1918 Spanish flu.
The 1918 Spanish flu outbreak occurred during World War I in
1918. There are various
hypotheses about where the flu originated. According to "The
site of origin of the 1918
influenza pandemic and its public health effects" (author John
M. Barry) published on the
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) website,
Haskell County, Kansas, the
United States. Some epidemiologists hypothesized that it
originated from a British army
post in France. Another hypothesis is that there are various
speculations, such as British
military bases where pigs and young people were raised in large
numbers, or thousands of
Chinese workers who were brought into Europe to dig trenches.
The 1918 Spanish flu is
true, and speculations about the origin of the Spanish flu have
not yet been concluded, but
I think this is also near-factual speculation. During a seven-year
study of the history of
pandemics, author John M. Barry conducted extensive research
on modern medicine and
general literature to find epidemiological evidence, and his
paper was published in NCBI.
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is
the center of world research.
NCBI contains information on biotechnology, including
PubMed, a database of bioscience
and medical papers, and GenBank, a genetic sequence database.
I think NCBI's
information is a reliable fact.

In fact, it has been officially announced that the current
coronavirus outbreak also occurred
in Wuhan, but there are speculations that it occurred first in the
U.S. and Britain. I hope that
the truth will be published in NBCI through constant
investigation and research on where it
actually first occurred.
Works Cited
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John M Barry, “The site of origin of the 1918 influenza
pandemic and its public health
implications” J Transl Med. 2004; 2: 320. Jan.2004, Journal of
Translational Medicine,
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC340389/
(https:// Zhuling Dai
Thursday

I guess you've all heard about new variants of the virus that will
cause COVID-19 from
other countries recently, but I'm not sure what I heard is a myth
or a fact. So I Googled the
Coronavirus variants and read the first article. The article
reports the existed mutations in
the virus over time, and the virus's mutation causes new
variants of the COVID-19.
According to the article, the U.S. has documented multiple
mutations of the virus in the past
three months. Unfortunately, the variants of COVID-19 bring
negative effects to countries
and people. As the variants circulating globally, the United
Kingdom reported a variant
called B.1.1.7 in the fall of 2020. This new variant spreads
easier and faster than the
original virus, which may also lead to a higher risk of death rate
than other variant viruses;
the U.S. also detected this variant at the end of December 2020.
In South Africa and Brazil,
different new variants were reported in the winter of 2020.
Those variants are detected in
the U.S. at the end of January 2021. After reading this article, I
can identify that the variants
of COVID-19 are a fact, instead of a myth, since many countries
reported those variants
and scientists are monitoring the mutation of the virus. So far,
researchers suggest that the
currently authorized vaccines are able to recognize most of the
popular variants, so we are
still safe once we get vaccinated. I gave a high credit for this
source because it is on the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) website. I

believe all research or
information on this website is a fact, and the reports post on
this website are 100% true and
trustworthy. Since CDC is a United States federal agency, I
think there will not have a bias
or other misinformation on this website.
“About Variants of the Virus That Causes COVID-19 .”
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 12 Feb.
2021.
www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/transmission/variant.html.
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I chose the myth that @Zhuling Dai. The new variants of the
virus cause COVID-19
recently.
A lot of articles about The variants of COVID-19 have been
published, and I cited the
article "New Variances of Coronavirus: What You Should
Know" by Johns Hopkins
Health System Hospitals.
To sum up, what are the new variants of coronavirus, and how
people should deal with
them. He also mentioned whether the vaccine is effective
against the new variants of
coronavirus. The variants of the virus occur when mutations
occur in the virus' genes,
and the nature of RNA viruses, such as coronavirus, is evolving
and changing. While
the current immune response by vaccines may be less effective
than some new
variants, this does not mean that vaccines will not provide
protection. Experts say that
although mutations can spread faster from person to person and
more infections can
cause more people to get sick, there is no clear evidence yet that
any of these strains
are more likely to cause serious illness or death and we do not
need to overreact to
these strains. Experts say that changes are being observed and
studied to ensure that
tests, treatments, and vaccines, like other viruses, still have a
TEMP effect on new
strain viruses. And we should continue to take safety
precautions against coronavirus
to reduce the risk of infection, such as wearing masks, keeping
body distance, and
hand hygiene.
Johns Hopkins Hospital has been selected as the top medical

institution in the United
States for 21 consecutive years and is the birthplace of medical
and medical education
in the United States. The sources here are widely accepted as
reputable sources of
scientific reporting. This is not a marketing website. Dr.
Bollinger, the author of the
article, has more than 40 years of experience in international
public health, clinical
research, and education covering global health priorities such as
HIV/AIDS, malaria,
tuberculosis, leprosy, dengue, antibiotic-resistant infections,
COVID-19, and other
emerging diseases. Another author Stuart Campbell Ray is Vice-
Chair of Medicine for
Data Integrity and Analytics, and he also is a Professor of
Medicine. So I can conclude
that this resource is reliable.
Robert Cyril Bollinger and Stuart Campbell Ray. “New Variants
of Coronavirus: What
You Should Know” Johns Hopkins Medicine, January 29, 2021
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-
diseases/coronavirus/a-
new-strain-of-coronavirus-what-you-should-know
(https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-
diseases/coronavirus/a-new-
strain-of-coronavirus-what-you-should-know) - Accessed 18
Feb. 2021
(https:// Hallil Thompson (He/Him)
Thursday

diseases/coronavirus/a-new-strain-of-coronavirus-what-you-
should-know
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1. The Covid-19 vaccine is killing people (myth)
2. The first source I found on google (that wasn’t an
Advertisement) was a Bloomberg
News article from January 2021, titled ‘Norway Moves to Calm
Vaccine Anxiety After
Elderly Deaths’. A secondary heading states, ‘No evidence of
direct link to Pfizer-
BioNTech shot: officials”. The article reports on public fears
regarding “potential side
effects from the vaccines”, but does so in an informative
manner based on facts
gathered so far, not myths. Quotes from a senior national
medical officer are used in
the article, stating that “Covid-19 is far more dangerous…than
vaccination.” The article
continues, stating that 33 peoople aged 75 and older have died
following their

vaccination, but also explains that this is out of a total of
48,000 people in this age
range who have all been inoculated, “…well under 1 out 1,000
nursing-home
patients…” The article continues, claiming that a prediction by
experts of deaths post-
vaccine could cause public confusion, and likely fear.
3. I believe the article and its sources to be extremely credible
and lacking in myths. The
head of the Norwegian Institute of Public Heath was quoted,
along with the medical
director at the Norwegian Medicines Agency, both qualified,
credible and educated
sources for such an article. The article looked at both sides of a
somewhat complex
argument, stating that some nursing home residents over 75
years of age had a higher
likelihood of dying regardless, due their age, underlying
conditions/illnesses and natural
morbidity factors. The article did not make misleading claims,
but instead appeared to
stick close to facts and statistics. The article also steered away
from fearmongering or
over dramatization/stretching of “facts”.
4. Taraldsen, Lars Erik, and Naomi Kresge. “Norway Moves to
Calm Vaccine Anxiety After
Elderly Deaths.” Bloomberg.com, 18 Jan. 2021,
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-18/norway-finds-
no-direct-link-
between-elderly-deaths-and-vaccine
(http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-
01-18/norway-finds-no-direct-link-between-elderly-deaths-and-
vaccine) - Accessed 18
Feb. 2021

(http Valerie Hernandez
Thursday
Myth: The vaccine is killing people
1. A myth I found from the student that I chose was that the
Covid vaccine is killing
people. Many people have been discussing this and trying to
convince others on
not getting it because it is unsafe. This has caused many people
to question the
true effect on the vaccine. People worry it may have some
symptoms or some
potential health risk factors.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-18/norway-
finds-no-direct-link-between-elderly-deaths-and-vaccine
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2. Based on the article that I read about the Covid-19 being

deadly to people has
caught the attention of many people. To sum up it discusses how
the vaccine was
created within a short amount of time. This time issue is what
causes doubts and
questions towards its development. Not only do they question
its development but
its function as well. There could be some potential underlying
factors as effect that
could occur to a person’s body if taking the vaccine. I also
found that the
government paid billions so that companies would feel safe in
moving forward and
making more vaccines.
3. This source is a secondary source and it is widely accepted as
reputable source for
science reporting. This source is evaluated as an
intergovernmental agency and
the source was from a popular media such as CNN. This is not a
marketing
website. I don’t know much about the author only that she is a
writer and a reporter.
The source seems to be an opinion piece since it is based on
what the author has
to say.
4. Overall, I can conclude that the source is not reliable since it
is based on the
author’s opinion. Since it is based on her opinion the topic
doesn’t seem so
convincing to me and I don’t think it could convince others.
Works Cited

Fox Maggie. “Covid-19 cant be safe and other myths.” CNN.
December 18, 2020.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/18/health/myths-covid-vaccine-
debunked/index.html
(http Vaheh
Friday
Today I will be examining Hallil Thompson’s post stating that
deaths from the covid 19
vaccine are a myth. To restate his claim in verbatim, “The
Covid-19 vaccine is killing
people (myth)”.
Upon searching for credible sources to further analyze the
current data on this subject,
I found a link to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Center for
Disease Control and Prevention had current data dated as
recently as February 14 of
2021. The site states that over 52 million doses of the covid 19
vaccine have been
given from the dates of December 14 2020 up to February 14
2021. The Center for
Disease Control and Prevention elaborated that of these
vaccines given, the common
side affects were: headaches, chills, fever, pain or swelling at
the injection site. There
was no data for deaths caused directly by the covid 19 vaccine
itself. CDC website did
state that anaphylaxis is an extremely rare but severe allergic
reaction that can happen

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after receiving the vaccine. A person can die during
anaphylaxis but that is
preventable with an immediate dose of epinephrine.
It is difficult to say if the Center for Disease Control and
Prevention is a primary or
secondary source because the data presented is accumulative of
both direct and
indirect interactions. Center for Disease Control and Prevention
is an official
government site, though it might be conservative with the
information shared, it
technically would not be considered biased. The information
presented is an
accumulated bounty of data, it would not be possible to name
one specific author. The
data stated is based off the outcome of current occurrences,
which makes it factual by
default.

“Safety of COVID-19 Vaccine.” Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, 18 Feb. 2021,
www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-
ncov/vaccines/safety/safety-of-vaccines.html.
(http Dylan Gates
Sunday
1. The Covid-19 vaccine is killing people
2. I have not found a source that proves the vaccine is killing
people, however there
were some articles that proved significant repercussions to
people who have received
the vaccine. With any new drug, there are often unforeseen side
affects. This makes a
lot of people skeptical about taking a newly researched and
pushed vaccine. In the
article it states that during trial stage of the vaccine, they had
developed Bell's Palsy.
This is a medical condition that causes on half of the face to
droop. It is clear that the
drug manufacturer has no idea why this has happened, and it
could have been an
allergic reaction, or a side affect of the newly made drug. In the
early stages of the
vaccine Britain's medicine regulator made it clear that if you
have history of significant
allergic reactions to medicine, food, or vaccines, to wait a day
before receiving the first
dose.

3.
1. The source that I have found is definitely a secondary source.
You can clearly tell
just by the way that they are regurgitating information from
different speakers.
2. The news source isn't as widely "accepted" as other new
sources, and they are not
as big as the media giants we all know today. I wouldn't
particularly say that this is a
bad thing though. As some of us know the large media
companies are owned by a very
small amount of people. Although this fact may include smaller
companies similar to
the one that my source is from.
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3. The author has written many other sources on covid and other
world affairs, but
other than that he is almost completely unknown.
4. The source appears to lay out facts, and not merely just an

opinion that states "do
not take the vaccine."
4. I think the source is somewhat reliable in the way that they
have gathered useful
information. It is clear that when vaccines are in preliminary
stages, with a minuscule
amount of testing, they can be dangerous. When vaccines have
been out for a while,
and have been tested extensively, it makes me feel a bit safer at
the least.
5.
Desk, India.com News. “Four Volunteers Develop Facial
Paralysis Symptoms After
Taking Pfizer Vaccine Shots: Details Here.” India News,
Breaking News |
India.com, 10 Dec. 2020, www.india.com/news/world/covid-19-
four-
volunteers-develop-facial-paralysis-symptoms-after-taking-
pfizer-vaccine-
shots-details-here-4256315/
(http://www.india.com/news/world/covid-19-four-
volunteers-develop-facial-paralysis-symptoms-after-taking-
pfizer-vaccine-shots-
details-here-4256315/) .
(http Jeonghyun Song
Sunday
1. The Covid-19 vaccine is killing people (myth). I also heard
this myth that the

vaccine is very deadly and not yet authorized. I also saw some
people who do not
want to take the vaccine as they believe what Hallil chose as a
discussion. I was
very skeptical about this but I had no way to find whether it is
true or not at the time
I heard this myth.
2. According to the answers to the frequently asked question
from CDC(Center for
disease control and prevention), the center confirms that the
vaccination does not
kill people although the process can cause symptoms such as
fever. These
symptoms are normal and are a sign that the body is building
protection against the
virus that causes Covid-19. They noted that people also have to
get a vaccine
although they already had Covid-19 and recovered which
vaccination can protect
them from getting sick with the virus
Another study was done by Johns Hopkins show some facts
and truths about the
Covid-19 vaccination. They claim that the vaccines help
people develop
immunity to a virus or other germ and it introduces a less
harmful part of that germ into
a person's body. And the noted that the Covid-19
vaccine must pass certain
tests and standards to evaluate whether they are safe and
effective. Organizations
such as the National Academy of Science, the
National Institutes for
Health, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) use
scientific data from

ibed
http://www.india.com/news/world/covid-19-four-volunteers-
develop-facial-paralysis-symptoms-after-taking-pfizer-vaccine-
shots-details-here-4256315/
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research to help decide if and when new drugs and vaccines
can become available
to the public.
3. Study conducted by Johns Hopkins was indeed the first
source. However, CDC is
hard to tell a primary or a secondary source. Their data seems to
be accumulative data
which both primary and secondary from their own or other
research. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention is a government agency that is
definitely widely
accepted as a reputable source for science reporting. Johns
Hopkins is also a very
reliable source that is reputable among medical research
organizations.
Work Cited

"Myths and Facts about COVID-19 Vaccines." Center for
Disease Control and
Prevention. Web. 03 Feb 2021.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-
ncov/vaccines/facts.html
(https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-
ncov/vaccines/facts.html)
"COVID-19 Vaccine: What You Need to Know." Johns Hopkins.
Web. 21 Jan 2021.
diseases/coronavirus/covid-19-
vaccine-what-you-need-to-know
(https:// Guillermo Quintanilla
Thursday
One myth that I constantly heard was the vaccine was unsafe
because it was developed
so quickly. A vaccine was indeed finished quickly. In fact, it
took just under one year to
develop. The last vaccine developed the fastest was the mumps
vaccine, which took 4
years to produce. However, there are a number of factors that go
into why this vaccine was
developed so quickly.
Firstly, this was not the first coronavirus that scientist has
seen. SARS and MERS are
other types of coronavirus, so scientists were not starting from
scratch. While this was the
first time they had to deal with SARS-CoV-2, they had

experience dealing with the other
coronaviruses. There were also so many people invested in
finding a vaccine quickly. This
virus has touched almost every country, so governments
worldwide were interested in
finding the vaccine. That is one of the reasons why this
scientific research did not find too
much trouble in finding funding. Governments and other
advocates were able to provide
the necessary funding needed to complete the research.
Other than finding funding for the research, scientists face
another problem is finding
volunteers to take part in the clinical trials. However, that was
not the case this time around.
There was no shortage of people who were willing to help and
take part in the trials. Also,
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/facts.html
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on Feb 18 at 6:02pm

the technology that we have today is more advanced than what
it was during the last
pandemic, which was the H1N1 pandemic in 2009.
These are but a few of the reasons why this vaccine was
developed so quickly. The
speed at which it was made does not make it unsafe; it just
means that there was great
urgency in finding the vaccine since it has impacted almost
everyone.
Newman, Tim, Addressing 13 COVID-19 vaccine
myths, MedicalNewsToday.com, Healthline Media UK, 29 Jan,
2021. Web, 18 Feb 2021.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/medical-myths-13-
covid-19-vaccine-
myths#13.-Older-adults-cannot-have-the-vaccine
(https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/medical-myths-13-
covid-19-vaccine-myths#13.-
Older-adults-cannot-have-the-vaccine)
(http Huilin Li
Sunday
One myth that the vaccine of Covid-19 is not safe because it
was developed so fast.
People believe that vaccines usually take many years to develop
and to exam to make
sure they are safe.

I google that “vaccine for covid is not safe”. The first source on
the top with the topic “Is
the COVID-19 Vaccine Safe?”
At the beginning of the source, it expressed that a successful
COVID-19 vaccine can
help prevent people from getting sick when they come into
contact with the virus.
Families and families will be able to eventually return to a more
regular routine as more
individuals are vaccinated. Then this source listed several
frequent questions people
concern about. Like how do we know the vaccine is safe? What
do people know about
the vaccine’s safety? The article gives the aspects of the
answers: the vaccine was
been carefully tested, authorization by emergency use,
Continuous monitoring for
problems and side effects. The Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) developed
stringent requirements for vaccine developers to follow for the
COVID-19 vaccine. To
test protection and efficacy, all vaccines go through clinical
trials. Moreover, the source
also gives the answer to “how does the Covid-19 develop so
fast”. The mRNA
technology used to produce vaccines for COVID-19 has been in
use for years to
prepare for infectious virus outbreaks. Thus, in the pandemic,
the development
process was ready quite early. And the governments gave money
in advance to
vaccine developers, so businesses had the support they required.
In addition, the

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This is a graded discussion: 20 points possible
due Feb 21
Using Sources - Myth or Fact - The Pandemic? 30 30
This topic was locked Feb 21 at 11:59pm.
For the first post - Due Thursday Night: (300 Words)
1. Post one myth or fact related to the pandemic that you have
heard recently, and if you

think it is true or not. Keep your post to this topic only.
2. Google it, click on the first source that comes up and
summarize if the sources is
concluding myth fact, or undetermined.
3. What is your first impression of the credibility of the source?
4. Add the full citation to the bottom of your post using MLA
format (see bottom of this page
for the format).
For the second posts (300 words)- Due Sunday Night:
1. Choose at least one facts or myths posted by another student.
(One student)
2. For the posted myth or fact, do your own background
research using at least one source
and summarize what you found.
3. Using the 4 tips for evaluating sources, fully evaluate your
source using 1-4.
4. What can you conclude about the reliability of the source?
5. Include full citations for all sources.
How to Cite Web Sources: MLA - See also Library Research
Guide on Canvas menu
The following is based on information from Shatford Library.
For more information on citing sources go to Citation
Style: MLA Style (http://libguides.pasadena.edu/citing/mla) .
General format: Author Last Name, First Name. "Title of Page
or Posting." Title of Web Site. Sponsor or publisher
of site, Copyright or Last Updated Day Month Year. Web.
Access Day Month Year.
Example citations for web pages:

"Cloning Myths." Learn.Genetics - Genetic Science Learning
Center. University of Utah Health Sciences, 2014. Web.
15 May 2014.
Luscombe, Belinda. "Ten Things You Didn’t Know About the
Gender Gap." Time.com. Time Inc., 11 Nov. 2013. Web.
9 Jan. 2014.
If the website is missing any of the required information, skip
that part of the citation (the author, for example). If no
sponsor or publisher is given, use n.p. in your citation. If no
copyright or date is given, use n.d.
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