After that I still saw a pattern where the media kept proffering worst case scenarios at every step, with no studies to back them up, even contradicting known s

After that I still saw a pattern where the media kept proffering worst case scenarios at every step, with no studies to back them up, even contradicting known science. The most recent example of this is fear-mongering headlines indicating that the vaccines would not be effective against variants. This might be expected behaviour for the flu, but not a coronavirus.