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Here are 10 pandemic pieces that I'm especially proud of. 1) On how it came to this.https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/coronavirus-american-failure/614191/ 2) This one from March--the first of the really big pieces, ab
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I wrote the Atlantic’s next cover story on the COVIDization of science. No other disease has been scrutinized so intensely, by so much combined intellect, in so brief a time.
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Well, rewatching Lord of the Rings this year was... different.Consider BILBO: just wants to finish his damn book; “butter spread over too much bread”; ages dramatically GANDALF: would rather be
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"Americans are dying of COVID-19 who, had they gotten sick a month earlier, would have lived." It is happening. Hospitals are being overwhelmed. Present tense, not future. Read @alexismadrigal and
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At the Atlantic, the peerless @sarahzhang has been leading our coverage of COVID-19 vaccines. Here's a thread of her amazing work. 1) A great big-picture look at the Moderna &
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I wrote about UNMC--the hospital that, perhaps more than any other in the US, had prepared for a pandemic. It has amazing facilities. Its staff anticipated, planned, drilled. And now?“I
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Here's a thing I want everyone to understand. There is a roughly 12-day lag between rising cases rising hospitalizations. So the 1.5 million (!!!) confirmed cases from the last 2
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I wrote about what health-care workers are going through, how exhausted & scared they are, and what this 3rd pandemic surge is doing to them. It’s not like the first
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It's a weird time for good personal news, but I’m proud to have won a AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award, in the In-Depth Reporting category for 3 of my pandemic
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I wrote a new piece about the 9 errors of intuition that people keep making during the pandemic, trapping us in a spiral of bad decisions & policies. This is
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There's been a wave of good pieces on COVID-19 long-haulers in the last few weeks. Here's @tanyabasu in MIT Tech Review on the Body Politic group that organized to research
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A few COVID-19 long-haulers told me they too disbelieved folks with ME/CFS and similar illnesses until they experienced something similar firsthand—and now deeply regret their previous skepticism. (Some folks w/
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