Is There an Official or Unofficial Norm in the Media to Be Really Reluctant to Be More Worried Than the Mainstream Scientific Consensus?

i th express more concern than thereis an obvious incentive gradient towards alarmism and like, the sky is falling ism. People start thinking of claims about big, scary events as basically just nonsense designed to get them to click. I would say to my editor things like, right, i don't have experts who are superwilling to venture numbers yet on how much the vaccines reduce transmission. Ah, and i want to write the story. And whois a great rite story. Being consistently right is important to the longevity of your career as journalist. If you're trying to do this, there's some space till i go out on a limb, but you're going out on a limp