The media has a huge bias to push a dominant narrative, and it's hard for actual data to get through.

So the early, and false, narrative about population density posing an insurmountable challenge to preventing disease spread got a ton of play. Now, when it's clear that density is not driving spread, it will be rare to see a news article countering that narrative.

I also think that reports like this Zillow data will not see nearly as much media attention as the initial truths reports about people fleeing cities.

Same with the "techies are all leaving SF" stories; I'll wait for actual data before listening to the narrative that serves the interests of a huge factional divide in SF.