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The media presents a virologist's prediction as a breakthrough

HIBRID

The online media in Albania "Abcnews.al" has published an article titled "Virologist reveals when the pandemic ends".

The same article was later published in the online media outlet in Kosovo, "GazetaBlic", but with a different title, "Unbelievable: Here's when the pandemic will end!".

Both of these media outlets have used inadequate titles in these articles, as this cannot be called a discovery or something obvious, because the content only contains a prediction by a virologist from Italy, Matteo Bassetti.

Links to articles published on "Abcnews.al" and "Gazetablic.com":

https://abcnews.al/virologu-zbulon-se-kur-perfundon-pandemia/

http://gazetablic.com/e-pabesueshme-ja-kur-do-te-perfundoje-pandemia/


The Italian doctor made this prediction in a radio show on "Rai Radio1", where he said: ""Now in the spring, between April-May 2022, we will reasonably be out of the pandemic. I hope we will be able to remove the masks, as I believe we will have 95% vaccinated." (see here)


Hibrid.info, after researching through search engines, found Bassetti's statement published in online media in Italy, which did not present it as a "discovery" or as "good news", but as a prediction made by a doctor. (see here, here and here).


To be considered a discovery or a credible source, as the Albanian-language media have presented it, it must be a study reviewed by experts in the relevant fields, which in English is known as "peer review" (see here). While in this case the Italian virologist in his prediction has only relied on a few assumptions which are presented below:

"I believe that today in Italy there are 10-15% positive, that is, about ten million people, and by spring more than one in two Italians will be infected."

"Already in the spring, between April-May 2022, we will reasonably be out of the pandemic - Bassetti's response - I hope we will be able to remove the masks, as I believe we will have 95% vaccinated."


Analyze:

Albanian-language online media "Abcnews.al" and "GazetaBlic.com" have published a prediction by an Italian virologist regarding the end of the Covid-19 pandemic, while in the headlines they have presented it as a discovery and as something taken for granted.

Hibrid.info, after researching through search engines, found this claim by the Italian doctor published by several media outlets in Italy, which published his statement as a prediction, not a discovery.

After fact-checking based on the work methodology, Hibrid.info has assessed these articles as "Unverified Content".


Reasoning:

The “Unverified” rating is given to those media reports that do not provide sufficient information to confirm the claims made in the report, and which have not been able to confirm the same due to the lack or non-possession of reliable sources.

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