Compiling a list of the official misinformation from press & state.

- Flu is more serious
- Travel bans are overreacting
- Only Wuhan visitors at risk
- Avoiding handshakes is paranoid
- Virus is contained
- Tests are available
- Masks don't help

What else?

The reason this is important is:

- people who made these mistakes haven't retracted
- indeed, many have pretended they didn't happen
- and are now pushing for censorship of "misinformation"

But without social media, seems clear the US would have been even slower to act.

Official misinformation appears to be international, across Western countries at least. Would appreciate more examples from Spain, Italy, etc before they get memory holed.

We need to document this because the folks that failed are now pushing censorship. https://twitter.com/WellingMichael/status/1241914189398134785

Here is another example. Of course, NYC cases & deaths are now going vertical.

A number of journalists and public health officials across the West were all singing from the same hymnal in February: it’s just a scare, let’s have a parade. https://twitter.com/marklevinenyc/status/1226566648729133056?s=21 https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1226566648729133056