FDA requires new eye risk warning on GLP-1 drugs

🗞️ Story file #1649

FDA requires new eye risk warning on GLP-1 drugs

Nov 9, 5 PM ET to Nov 10, 10 AM ET

18outlets carried it
🫏9 · 3 · 6🐘left · center · right
17 hourson the front pages
18front pages at once, at its peak
5 minof TV captions
4radio newscasts
11people retold it online

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Nov 9, 5 PM ETfirst on a front page: ABC News
Nov 9, 7 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Nov 9, 8 PM ETfirst on TV: MSNOW
Nov 10, 5 AM ETretold online by 11 people
Nov 10, 10 AM ETpeak: on 18 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Nov 9, 5 PM to Nov 10, 10 AM ET (peak 18), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 Wire copy

1 outlet ran the AP headline nearly word for word

HuffPost

💬 Quoted

“eye stroke”1

phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did

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aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)

✏️ 4 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

ABC News (2 wordings): “FDA orders new warning on GLP-1 drugs over rare eye condition” → “Taking Ozempic or Wegovy? What to know about the FDA's new eye warning”
Fox Business (2 wordings): “FDA adds rare warning to GLP-1 drugs used by millions” → “FDA adds warning to GLP-1 drugs used by millions over rare risk”
HuffPost (2 wordings): “FDA Adds Rare Vision-loss Warning To Popular GLP-1 Drugs” → “FDA Adds Rare Vision-Loss Warning To Popular GLP-1 Drugs”
The Washington Post (2 wordings): “FDA tells GLP-1 makers to warn of potential vision loss side effect” → “FDA tells GLP-1 makers to warn of potential vision loss side effect - The Washington Post”

📰 Every outlet's headline 18left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost🕒 Nov 9, 10 PM ET FDA Adds Rare Vision-loss Warning To Popular GLP-1 Drugs
ABC News🕒 Nov 9, 5 PM ET FDA orders new warning on GLP-1 drugs over rare eye condition
AP🕒 Nov 9, 5 PM ET FDA adds rare vision-loss warning to popular GLP-1 drugs
CBS News🕒 Nov 9, 8 PM ET FDA warns of rare vision-loss side effect from GLP-1 drugs
CNBC🕒 Nov 10, 3 AM ET FDA warns of vision loss risk linked to GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy, Zepbound
CNN🕒 Nov 9, 12 PM ET US FDA orders new eye risk warnings for Ozempic, Zepbound
NBC News🕒 Nov 9, 2 PM ET FDA orders new warning on GLP-1s over rare eye condition linked to sudden blindness
The Independent🕒 Nov 9, 9 PM ET FDA to require GLP-1 makers to add major change to warning labels
The Washington Post🕒 Nov 9, 5 PM ET FDA tells GLP-1 makers to warn of potential vision loss side effect
MarketWatch🕒 Nov 9, 1 PM ET Ozempic, Zepbound and other GLP-1 drugs have a possible risk of vision loss
News Nation🕒 Nov 9, 11 PM ET FDA requires safety label changes for GLP-1s over risk for eye condition
The Hill🕒 Nov 9, 6 PM ET FDA warns of rare ‘eye stroke’ risk from GLP-1 drugs
Fox Business🕒 Nov 10, 9 AM ET FDA adds rare warning to GLP-1 drugs used by millions
The Epoch Times🕒 Nov 9, 4 PM ET FDA Mandates New Eye Risk Warning on GLP-1 Drugs
The Washington Times🕒 Nov 10, 10 AM ET FDA warning: Ozempic, other weight-loss drugs can cause vision loss
New York Post🕒 Nov 9, 4 PM ET GLP-1 drugs must have new warning label over incurable blindness condition, says FDA
Newsmax🕒 Nov 9, 3 PM ET FDA Orders New Eye Risk Warnings for GLP-1s
Townhall🕒 Nov 9, 8 PM ET FDA Now Requiring GLP-1 Makers to Warn About Rare but Severe Eye Condition

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

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🫏 NPR News Now 4× · best #3

podcasts, newsletters and streams that talked about it, by show; the bar is episodes; the disc is the show's lean by reputation

🫏 MeidasTouch 1

🕵️ investigative reporting on it and 🃏 satire joking about it (jokes, never counted as coverage); the bar is pieces

🕵️🤷 No investigator or satirist matched to it yet.

what people online made of it

🧶 Retold online

The FDA is requiring GLP-1 drugs to carry warnings about a rare risk of permanent vision loss. Nov 10: told by 11 people

On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.

🗣️ Names in it

FDAGLP-1 drugsOzempicZepbound

what the fact-checkers looked into

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the running story it belongs to

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FDA requires new eye risk warning on GLP-1 drugs

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