Keyword topic
64 articles from 17 news outlets, Sep 27 to Oct 26
Share of stories per day
The share of each source's stories that mention plague, averaged over sources with at least 3 stories that day.
Coverage by source over time
One ridge per source that mentioned plague, from the most left-leaning on top: how high it rises each day is the share of that source's stories that mention it.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Who picked it up when
The Daily Caller mentioned it first (Oct 3, 2026, 6:33 PM EDT). Left-leaning outlets followed 22 hours later, least biased outlets 39 hours later.
One row per source that mentioned plague, from the most left-leaning on top: a dot for each article, on a bar for each stretch of its coverage (a pause of more than 24 hours starts a new one). Hover or tap a dot for the headline, click it to read the article.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Coverage by source
The share of each source's stories that mention plague, Sep 27 to Oct 26, from left to right. Sort the table to reorder the bars.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
| Vox | 0.8% | 1 | 126 |
| The New York Times | 0.5% | 6 | 1187 |
| TIME | 0.7% | 2 | 273 |
| NBC News | 0.9% | 6 | 680 |
| The Guardian | 0.1% | 1 | 950 |
| CNBC | 0.4% | 4 | 948 |
| The Atlantic | 0.4% | 1 | 275 |
| Axios | 0.8% | 3 | 374 |
| NPR | 0.3% | 1 | 395 |
| PBS NewsHour | 1.1% | 6 | 569 |
| The Hill | 0.7% | 8 | 1133 |
| CBS News | 0.5% | 7 | 1517 |
| New York Post | <0.1% | 1 | 2344 |
| The Daily Caller | 0.2% | 1 | 505 |
| The Daily Wire | 0.5% | 4 | 853 |
| Fox News | 0.2% | 5 | 2433 |
| Breitbart | 0.4% | 7 | 1826 |
Coverage by lean
The share of stories that mention plague, Sep 27 to Oct 26, averaged over the outlets of each political lean with at least 3 stories. The groups differ in size, so a single outlet weighs more in the smaller ones.
- Left-leaning10 of 15 sources
- 0.4%
- Least biased1 of 8 sources
- 0.1%
- Right-leaning6 of 15 sources
- 0.1%
Source leans based on ratings by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Lean index −1.5: covered more by left-leaning outlets
Each outlet at its MBFC bias score, from −10 (far left) to +10 (far right), as high as the share of its stories that mention plague. The lean index is the average score of the outlets covering it, weighted by that share.
lean indexour sources' average (+0.4)leftcenterright
Bias scores by Media Bias/Fact Check.
1 source has no MBFC bias score and is not shown.
Lean index per day
Related keywords
Keywords that appear in the same articles as plague, Sep 27 to Oct 26: the share of its articles that also mention them, with the number of shared articles.
The search icon lists the articles that mention both.
Example articles
The article that features plague most, per source.
- VoxWhat you should know about the Russian “plague lab”
- The New York TimesRussia Moves to Tamp Down Rumors About Plague Outbreak in Siberia
- TIMEWhat We Know About Russia Pneumonic 'Plague' After Dozens Quarantined in Siberia
- NBC NewsResearcher at Russian Lab Dies After Potential Plague Exposure
- The GuardianThe Guardian view on plague in Russia: what is most worrying is the lack of information | Editorial
- CNBCRussia plague: What we know about the suspected case reportedly linked to a lab worker’s death
- The AtlanticWhat We Really Know About the Russian ‘Plague’ Case
- AxiosCDC: Monitoring Russian plague risk, "prepared" for any threat
- NPRWhat is the pneumonic plague?
- PBS NewsHourThe plague never went away. Cases are reported in parts of Africa and the U.S. nearly every year
- The HillUS reups do-not-travel warning for Russia over 'suspected pneumonic plague'
- CBS NewsWhat we know about the apparent plague death in Russia
- New York PostWhite House ‘monitoring’ suspected plague outbreak in Russia after lab worker dead, hundreds quarantined
- The Daily Caller‘Anti-Epidemic Measures’ Enacted After 1 Dead From Plague, 200 Quarantined Amid Russian Lab Incident
- The Daily WireWhat To Know About Russia’s Anti-Plague Institute Suspected Of Plague Leak
- Fox NewsWATCH: CDC director discusses US government response to Russian plague concerns: 'We are protected'
- BreitbartTedros Says Russia Not Giving W.H.O. 'Full Picture' of Suspected Plague Situation
All articles
Every article that mentions plague, Sep 27 to Oct 26. Relevance says how central it is to the article; ● marks a mention in the title. Combine with another keyword, text or sources.