Tuberculosis and foreign-born populations in the United States: A mixed methods pilot study of media reporting and political identification

Angel N Desai, Shravanthi M Seshasayee, Maimuna S Majumder, Britta Lassmann, Lawrence C Madoff, Emily L Cohn and John S Brownstein

PLOS ONE, 2020, vol. 15, issue 4, 1-12

Abstract: Background: Media reporting on communicable diseases has been demonstrated to affect the perception of the public. Communicable disease reporting related to foreign-born persons has not yet been evaluated. Objective: Examine how political leaning in the media affects reporting on tuberculosis (TB) in foreign-born persons. Methods: HealthMap, a digital surveillance platform that aggregates news sources on global infectious diseases, was used. Data was queried for media reports from the U.S. between 2011–2019, containing the term “TB” or “tuberculosis” and “foreign born”, “refugee (s),” or “im (migrants).” Reports were reviewed to exclude duplicates and non-human cases. Each media source was rated using two independent media bias indicators to assess political leaning. Forty-six non-tuberculosis reports were randomly sampled and evaluated as a control. Two independent reviewers performed sentiment analysis on each report. Results: Of 891 TB-associated reports in the US, 46 referenced foreign-born individuals, and were included in this analysis. 60.9% (28) of reports were published in right-leaning news media and 6.5% (3) of reports in left-leaning media, while 39.1% (18) of the control group reports were published in left- leaning media and 10.9% (5) in right-leaning media (p

Date: 2020
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