The fifth wave of the Covid-19 crisis in Hong Kong has claimed hundreds of lives, making the city’s seven-day rolling average of Covid-19 deaths per capita the highest in the world. This has caused panic, fuelled by sparse information about the deceased in news reports, which do not make the reasons for some deaths clear.Psychologists have long pointed out that when something bad happens, we humans have a natural tendency to find explanations for why it happened. This is known as causal…
Source: When reading news on Covid-related deaths, remember three rules
