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March 26, 2020updated 30 Sep 2022 9:05am

Shaun Lintern interview: The Independent’s health writer on covering coronavirus (+video)

By Dominic Ponsford

“At a time of national crisis you don’t suspend journalism, in fact it becomes even more important.”

This is the view of Independent health correspondent Shaun Lintern when asked if the need for the nation to pull together during the current pandemic means journalists should suspend any of their usual scepticism.

He told Press Gazette: “If we’ve got a government that tells the public ‘don’t worry’ when doctors and nurses are saying they should worry, it is our job to get into that debate and provide some reality.

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