https://www.scmp.com/rss/512067/feed Dr Helen Dai is a full-time employee of CSL Behring, a global biotech company, where she is dedicated to bringing innovative therapies to improve patients' quality of life. Helen practised as an anaesthesiologist for eight years and holds a PhD in anaesthesia and intensive care from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com 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... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3169960/when-reading-news-covid-related-deaths-remember-three-rules?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3169960/when-reading-news-covid-related-deaths-remember-three-rules?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 11 Mar 2022 22:45:15 +0000