Who’s the most quoted health expert on the pandemic?
Doctors emerge clear winners in a wrap up of COVID-19 media coverage across digital and print news outlets
Doctors have taken out the top spot in a round-up of media coverage on all things pandemic in the nation’s leading newspapers and news websites.
AMA president Dr Omar Khorshid has emerged as Australia’s most-cited medical expert on COVID-19, with his vice president GP Dr Chris Moy also hitting the top 10 in a list that excludes government officials.
He’s edged out infectious disease experts and epidemiologists in the figures compiled by Streem media monitoring for the Australian Financial Review.
The data records the number of times prominent health experts were quoted on the pandemic in print and online, including on news websites and metropolitan newspapers, from January to July 2021.
