Publication date: Jun 19, 2025

“More information: Brooke Fisher Liu et al, Theorizing forgotten crisis publics: COVID long haulers’ information marginalization, Public Relations Review (2025). (Though she believed in Paxlovid’s ability to help many long haulers, she refused to lie about having an active infection, and so was not prescribed the drug. ) In the event of future outbreaks and disasters, federal organizations must prioritize communities at high risk of being overlooked, like those suffering chronic disease, the authors said. “They’re just being dismissed and gaslighted,” said College of Information Associate Professor and co-author Beth St. Jean. “A lot of groups have people trying to sell you supplements and anti-vaxxers with conspiracy theories,” she said. Their research builds off scholarship exploring “forgotten publics”the marginalized and silenced during crisesa concept that emerged in Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath. “Our goal is to figure out how we could have gotten this information piece better so this fiasco doesn’t happen again.

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