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It has been too long since I’ve done this, but here are some great pandemic-related pieces from the last month or so, from people whose work I respect. If you’ve

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

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

As they say, some personal news: I won the 2020 Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting! I’m chuffed to bits. The prize honours writers for a 5-year

In this immunology explainer, I noted that some anecdotal accounts of COVID-19 reinfections exist, but to confirm them, you'd need to sequence the genes of the virus from both infections

The central idea behind this piece on why the US failed so badly to control the pandemic is that it fell under the combined weight of a multitude of weaknesses,

Here’s the big piece I’ve been promising: an Atlantic cover story about the US’s catastrophic mishandling of the pandemic. It’s a full autopsy of what went wrong, every unattended weakness

Let me share a nice thing. We could all use some nice things.I got an email yesterday, from a person I've never heard from before, but whose name I recognised.

I wrote about the mental and emotional toll that the pandemic is taking on public health experts, who’ve been running on fumes for months, and who are deeply frustrated with

A few people responded to this piece about public-health burnout with some variant of "It's not just them; [climate scientists/conservationists/etc.] have felt this way for years."And yes! I agree! Consider

Three months ago, I paused book leave to return to the Atlantic for fulltime pandemic reporting. Here's a thread of 5 big pieces I've written since. 1) A sweeping look

Here are 3 things to be mindful of when comparing different states (or countries), esp when thinking about different reopening decisions. 1) There's a *long* lag between actions and their