Ed Yong
Ed is also the recipient of the George Polk Award for Science Reporting, as well as several other awards. He is the author of I Contain Multitudes, a New York Times best seller, and the forthcoming title An Immense World.
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Aaron Turner for The Atlantic The Final Pandemic Betrayal
Millions of people are still mourning loved ones lost to COVID, their grief intensified, prolonged, and even denied by the politics of the pandemic.
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Joe Riis / The Atlantic What Can One Disease Do to a Landscape?
After the vicuñas in Argentina’s San Guillermo National Park caught mange from domesticated llamas, the world around them changed.
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Gallery Stock; Getty America Is Zooming Through the Pandemic Panic-Neglect Cycle
All epidemics trigger the same Sisyphean cycle of panic and neglect. Even so, that cycle isn’t meant to spin this quickly.
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Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times … 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?
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John Stanmeyer / VII / Redux The Millions of People Stuck in Pandemic Limbo
What does society owe immunocompromised people?
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Alfred-Wegener-Institut / PS101 AWI OFOS system/ Antje Boetius These Animals Are Feasting on the Ruins of an Extinct World
Scientists had no idea how an underwater Arctic volcano could sustain so much life. And then they noticed the black tubes.
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The Atlantic Hospitals Can’t Accept This as ‘Normal’
COVID has pushed one Chicago institution into crisis again and again. The Omicron surge is receding. Now what?
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Victor J. Blue / The New York Times … It’s a Terrible Idea to Deny Medical Care to Unvaccinated People
Omicron is pushing hospitals to their limit, but the medical system still has an ethical responsibility to all patients—no matter the choices they make.
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Joseph Prezioso / AFP / Getty COVID-Hospitalization Numbers Are as Bad as They Look
Many supposedly “incidental” infections aren’t really incidental, and cannot be dismissed.
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Allison Dinner / Bloomberg / Getty Hospitals Are in Serious Trouble
Omicron is inundating a health-care system that was already buckling under the cumulative toll of every previous surge.
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Ben Hickey Omicron Is Our Past Pandemic Mistakes on Fast-Forward
We’ve been making the same errors for nearly two years now.
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Getty; The Atlantic I Canceled My Birthday Party Because of Omicron
Here’s how I thought through the decision.
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Bloomberg / Getty; NurPhoto / Getty; The Atlantic 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.
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Getty; The Atlantic Even Health-Care Workers With Long COVID Are Being Dismissed
Medical professionals are used to being believed, but as patients, they found that their expertise didn’t matter.
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Juanmonino / Getty; The Atlantic / Gabriela Pesqueira Why Health-Care Workers Are Quitting in Droves
About one in five health-care workers has left their job since the pandemic started. This is their story—and the story of those left behind.
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The Asahi Shimbun / Getty The Enormous Hole That Whaling Left Behind
The mass slaughter of whales destroyed far more than the creatures themselves.
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Ben Hickey How Public Health Took Part in Its Own Downfall
The field’s future lies in reclaiming parts of its past that it willingly abandoned.
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Jacques Le Roux / iStock / Getty African Elephants Evolved Tusklessness Amazingly Fast
But at what cost?
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Custom Life Science Images / Alamy; Mark Mcgillivray Flatworms Are Metal
They can tear themselves in half and regrow complete bodies. They can retain memories despite decapitation. And if you chop them into little pieces, each piece will start acting like a perfectly intact worm.
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Getty; The Atlantic What Even Counts as Science Writing Anymore?
The pandemic made it clear that science touches everything, and everything touches science.
