Constant media updates on the coronavirus could actually be stopping people from properly understanding the outbreak. Here's why.

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• Updates on new deaths and infections of the novel coronavirus have been coming thick and fast from media outlets as the outbreak becomes an ever-increasing news story.
• But this constant stream of numbers could actually be doing more harm than good, a statistics expert told Business Insider.
• Professor John Allen Paulos compared media reporting on incremental changes in the number of deaths and infections to driving a Porsche with oversensitive steering...