Ed Yong
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America Is Choosing to Stay Vulnerable to Pandemics
All of this will happen again. → Read More
America Was in an Early-Death Crisis Long Before COVID
Even before the pandemic began, more people here were dying at younger ages than in comparably wealthy nations. → Read More
Is BA.5 the ‘Reinfection Wave’?
The latest wave of infections is a test of our pandemic priorities. → Read More
America Is in the ‘Figure It Out Yourself’ Era of the Pandemic
In the face of government inaction, the country’s best chance at keeping the crisis from spiraling relies on everyone to keep caring. → Read More
The Grief of 1 Million COVID Deaths Is Not Going Away
COVID is now the third leading cause of death—and therefore the third leading cause of grief—in the United States. → Read More
The Coronavirus Funding Collapse Is a Disaster
All epidemics trigger the same Sisyphean cycle of panic and neglect. Even so, that cycle isn’t meant to spin this quickly. → Read More
How Did This Many Deaths Become Normal?
The U.S. is nearing 1 million recorded COVID-19 deaths without the social reckoning that such a tragedy should provoke. Why? → Read More
The Pandemic Isn’t Over for Immunocompromised People
What does society owe immunocompromised people? → Read More
I Canceled My Birthday Party Because of Omicron
Here’s how I thought through the decision. → Read More
America Is Not Ready for Omicron
The new variant poses a far graver threat at the collective level than the individual one—the kind of test that the U.S. has repeatedly failed. → Read More
How Public Health Took Part in Its Own Downfall
The field’s future lies in reclaiming parts of its past that it willingly abandoned. → Read More
We’re Already Barreling Toward the Next Pandemic
This one is far from over, but the window to prepare for future threats is closing fast. → Read More
Long COVID Is Everyone’s Problem
Many long-haulers feel that science is failing them. Neglecting them could make the pandemic even worse. → Read More
How The Pandemic Ends
Cases of COVID-19 are rising fast. Vaccine uptake has plateaued. The pandemic will be over one day—but the way there is different now. → Read More
America Is Getting Unvaccinated People All Wrong
They’re not all anti-vaxxers, and treating them as such is making things worse. → Read More
The 3 Simple Rules That Underscore the Danger of Delta
Vaccines are still beating the variants, but the unvaccinated world is being pummeled. → Read More
Vaccination Is Making America Forget a Basic Pandemic Rule
We understand how this will end. But who bears the risk that remains? → Read More
What Happens When Americans Can Finally Exhale
The pandemic’s mental wounds are still wide open. → Read More
Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us
As vaccines roll out, the U.S. will face a choice about what to learn and what to forget. → Read More
How Science Beat the Virus
This article was published online on December 14, 2020. 1. In fall of 2019, exactly zero scientists were studying COVID‑19, because no one knew the disease existed. The coronavirus that causes it, SARS‑CoV‑2, had only recently jumped into humans and had been neither identified nor named. But by the end of March 2020, it had spread to more than 170 countries, sickened more than 750,000 people,… → Read More