HCIT: Not at all shocked. Incompetent marketing
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"The Force" you refer to is "compelling human interest" and the competition is not some inexplicable nefarious evil- it is simply thousands of other news stories. Failure to properly communicate the importance and significance of this data in is simply piss poor management. Basic marketing 101. How to write a PR.
Look at the structure and context of just this "story". The failure is very easy to spot: This is fantastic news! But they immediately dilute the impact of the news and fail to tell a story. The purpose of a PR is to get real media to pick up the story. So you have to have a story. The best way to get that is to write the story for the reporter/editor.
This PR has:
1) Non-compelling self-centered and run-on title. No media will use that title. Write it for them.
2) Low impact run-on sentences. Re-writing poorly crappy PR copy is a very low priority job for reporters and editors. Write correctly.
3) Highly diluted message with multiple data and no story line, no "focused hook" about the importance of the S/C issue: That even with a vax millions will still get COVID. Reporters/editors do not create news or context; nor have time to research & re-write the core focus of the story.
4) No quote from external/independent references to validate and provide follow up leads. Again, asking reporter/editor to do your job.
5) Diluted story and poor writing not only wrecks the focus of this PR, but totally deflates the value/opportunity to PR updates on LH (huge !) and BLA which are entirely separate and compelling stories in and of themselves. One story at a time- Ohhhmmmmm.