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Fascinating Coronavirus Features from Science Journalist Ed Yong

Dive into Ed Yong’s stellar journalism with this collection of pandemic coverage for The Atlantic.

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Ed Yong, author of 2020’s most-read article in Pocket, How the Pandemic Will End, tenaciously covered COVID-19 and the response to the virus throughout the year. Dive into more of his stellar journalism with this collection of pandemic coverage for The Atlantic, including a prescient 2018 feature on how America fell behind in preparing for the next plague.

Ed curated this collection of his work in November 2020. In December, Pocket hosted a special live event with Ed Yong to discuss How the Pandemic Will End and more of his 2020 coronavirus coverage. [Watch here]

Our Pandemic Summer

The fight against the coronavirus won’t be over when the U.S. reopens. Here’s how the nation must prepare itself.

The Pandemic Doesn’t Have to Be This Confusing

A guide to making sense of a problem that is now too big for any one person to fully comprehend.

We Live in a Patchwork Pandemic Now

The disease’s “long-haulers” have endured relentless waves of debilitating symptoms—and disbelief from doctors and friends.

The Pandemic Experts Are Not Okay

Many American public-health specialists are at risk of burning out as the coronavirus surges back.

Why the Pandemic Is So Bad in America

A virus has brought the world’s most powerful country to its knees.

The Pandemic’s Biggest Mystery Is Our Own Immune System

Which is too bad because we really need to understand how the immune system reacts to the coronavirus.

Long-Haulers Are Redefining COVID-19

Without understanding the lingering illness that some patients experience, we can’t understand the pandemic.

America Is Trapped in a Pandemic Spiral

As the U.S. heads toward the winter, the country is going round in circles, making the same conceptual errors that have plagued it since spring.

What COVID-19 Does to the Heart

The new coronavirus seems so strange because it has our full attention in a way most viruses don’t.

Donald Trump’s Strength Did Not Beat the Coronavirus

The metaphors that Trump and others use when talking about COVID-19 are making the pandemic worse.

COVID-19’s Third Surge Is Breaking Health-Care Workers

More people than ever are hospitalized with COVID-19. Health-care workers can’t go on like this.

Hospitals Know What’s Coming

“We are on an absolutely catastrophic path,” said a COVID-19 doctor at America’s best-prepared hospital.

Bonus Read from 2018: Is America Ready for a Global Pandemic?

The epidemics of the early 21st century revealed a world unprepared, even as the risks continue to multiply. Much worse is coming.