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American tests positive for hantavirus, HHS says 78%

5/12/2026, 11:35:25 AM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 25 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Appeal to Authority, and Negativity Bias, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 42.6% saturation with 173 hits. Analysis detected 1,459 faulty-reasoning hits from 406 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 70.8% and a BS Rank of 78% (3,706 of 16,813 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 78.00% of the video peer group.

This morning, health officials monitoring those Americans who returned home following that deadly hunter virus outbreak on board a cruise ship. 
The first American to test positive being treated inside the bioontainment unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. 
15 others are being evaluated for symptoms in the quarantine unit here. 
Once released, they will be allowed to monitor their symptoms at home or remain here for the 42-day quarantine period. 
So the 15 who are in quarantine right now, what is life like for them? 
>> So they have their independent private rooms, kind of like a hotel room with the exception of they can't have visitors and then they have a healthcare team that does come in and check with them. 
>> Two other Americans, a couple flown to Emory University in Atlanta after one of them showed symptoms. 
So far, 11 cases reported worldwide. Three have died. 
Maryland is monitoring two residents who were on a flight with a cruise ship passenger who later tested positive. 
Now, growing concerns the Andes virus may spread easier than previously thought, though evidence remains preliminary. 
>> We're just seeing emerging evidence. For instance, in conversations that several colleagues had with the doctor on the ship who said that at least three of the people who got infected did not have close contact and they may have had just casual contact sitting next to somebody for half an hour at a meal. 
>> Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. maintains the government has the proper protocols in place. 
We have this under control and we're not worried about it. 
>> Shaina Montel is one of the few Americans to have experienced the virus. 
>> The abdominal pain, I remember that hurting bad to the point where I was just having to throw up because it hurt so bad. 
>> Contracting it when she was just 5 years old in 1993 during the four corners outbreak, the biggest haunt virus outbreak to date in the US. 
My mom, she was very panicked, very worried, very stressed. There was just a lot of unknown answers. 
And knowing what I went through and how awful it was, like I would not wish that upon anybody. 
>> Once cleared to quarantine at home, health officials here stressed these passengers would be escorted the entire way. 
We will not see them on commercial flights. 
Confirmation Bias
13.8%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
36.9%
Representativeness Heuristic
4.7%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
20.4%
Framing Effect
15.5%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
8.9%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
9.6%
Pessimism Bias
3.9%
Negativity Bias
30.3%
Self-Serving Bias
6.7%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
4.4%
In-Group Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
18.5%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
0%
Primacy Effect
11.3%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
33.3%
False Dilemma
2%
Slippery Slope
3.9%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
16%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
42.6%
Begging the Question
3.9%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
4.7%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
19.5%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
27.8%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
9.1%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
4.9%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
6.7%
Unattributed Quote
0%
Quote-first Misdirection
0%
Biased Writer Voice
0%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%

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