A new viral outbreak is testing whether the world has learned anything from COVID. By Ed Yong Yesterday afternoon, I called the UCLA epidemiologist Anne Rimoin to ask about the European outbreak of monkeypox—a rare but potentially severe viral illness with dozens of...
Millions of people are still mourning loved ones lost to COVID, their grief intensified, prolonged, and even denied by the politics of the pandemic. By Ed Yong ucy esparza-casarez thinks she caught the coronavirus while working the polls during California’s 2020...
All epidemics trigger the same Sisyphean cycle of panic and neglect. Even so, that cycle isn’t meant to spin this quickly. By Ed Yong All epidemics trigger the same dispiriting cycle. First, panic: As new pathogens emerge, governments throw money, resources, and...
The U.S. is nearing 1 million recorded COVID-19 deaths without the social reckoning that such a tragedy should provoke. Why? By Ed Yong he united states reported more deaths from COVID-19 last Friday than deaths from Hurricane Katrina, more on any two recent weekdays...
Omicron is inundating a health-care system that was already buckling under the cumulative toll of every previous surge. By Ed Yong hen a health-care system crumbles, this is what it looks like. Much of what’s wrong happens invisibly. At first, there’s just a lot of...
Medical professionals are used to being believed, but as patients, they found that their expertise didn’t matter. By Ed Yong Before she caught COVID-19 at a wedding in March 2020, the physician associate spent her days diagnosing and treating people; after she was...
This one is far from over, but the window to prepare for future threats is closing fast. By Ed Yong A year after the United States bombed its pandemic performance in front of the world, the Delta variant opened the stage for a face-saving encore. If the U.S. had...
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. By Ed Yong Originally Published August 12, 2021 In september 2020, just before COVID-19 began its wintry surge through the...
By Ed Yong Vaccines are still beating the variants, but the unvaccinated world is being pummeled Fifteen months after the novel coronavirus shut down much of the world, the pandemic is still raging. Few experts guessed that by this point, the world would have not one...