Summary: <p>The World Health Organization has officially declared the spread of COVID-19 a global pandemic. On this week's On the Media, how coverage of the virus in the United States, overseas and onscreen is informing how we cope with the threat of infection.</p> <p>1. McKay Coppins [<a href="https://twitter.com/mckaycoppins">@mckaycoppins</a>], staff writer at <em>The Atlantic</em>, on right-wing media's coronavirus misinformation campaign. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/pandemic-propaganda">Listen.</a></p> <p>2. Rachel Donadio [<a href="https://twitter.com/RachelDonadio">@RachelDonadio</a>], European politics and culture reporter for <em>The Atlantic,</em> on how the Italian media have been keeping a nation under lockdown informed. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/italy-under-lockdown-on-the-media">Listen.</a></p> <p>3. Christopher Miller [<a href="https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM">@ChristopherJM</a>], Buzzfeed News correspondent, on how coronavirus rumors decimated a small Ukrainian village. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/how-coronavirus-rumors-ravaged-small-ukraine-town-on-the-media">Listen.</a></p> <p>4. Gideon Lasco [<a href="https://twitter.com/gideonlasco">@gideonlasco</a>], medical anthropologist at the University of the Philippines Diliman, on the symbolism of surgical masks. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/masks-symbols-on-the-media">Listen.</a></p> <p>5. Wesley Morris [<a href="https://twitter.com/Wesley_Morris">@Wesley_Morris</a>] of the <em>New York Times</em>, on rewatching the movie <em>Contagion. </em><a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/rewatching-contagion-during-pandemic">Listen.</a></p>
