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Bio: Science writer at The Atlantic. Author of I CONTAIN MULTITUDES, a New York Times bestseller. Married to Liz Neeley. edyong.me (he/him)
Location: At home
THREAD:
There's a lot of concern right now about Trump & how he might handle an election loss after @bartongellman's article & the terrible answer Trump gave to @BrianKarem.
But we're not powerless to ensure a peaceful transfer if Trump loses.
Here's what can be done now. /1
The Tanner Lecture
DECONSTRUCTING PANDEMIC NEWS:
Award-Winning Science Journalist from The Atlantic
ED YONG
Tuesday October 13, 2020
7:00 ā 8:30 PM
Video Livestream Format
@UUtah
slcc.edu/tanner/index.aā¦ pic.twitter.com/PHLKsSHOlX
Strength in numbers?
More like strangeness in numbers.
@edyong209 sums up why #Covid19 feels exceptional... but might not be as odd as we think: theatlantic.com/health/archiveā¦ pic.twitter.com/AdeTIhmTin
theatlantic.com/health/archiveā¦
A nation that systematically and consistently legalizes murder can not be reformed. #BreonnaTaylorWasMurdered
These are four of the best science journalists working today. twitter.com/WFSJ/status/13ā¦
I'll be interviewing Gates during this slot. twitter.com/TheAtlantic/stā¦
āTrump may win or lose, but he will never concede... this will be the most important fact about the coming Interregnum. It will deform the proceedings from beginning to end. We have not experienced anything like it before.ā
šØ@bartongellmanās cover story:theatlantic.com/magazine/archiā¦
theatlantic.com/magazine/archiā¦
How will you know when it's safe to take a COVID-19 vaccine? I talked to some experts who had a few helpful tips. fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-tā¦
fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-tā¦
This ā¦@bartongellmanā© piece is the stuff of nightmares theatlantic.com/magazine/archiā¦ pic.twitter.com/5aIIsfZDWN
theatlantic.com/magazine/archiā¦
Don't miss @HelenJMacdonald tomorrow night with new essay collection VESPER FLIGHTS. The bestselling author of H IS FOR HAWK will be in conversation with @edyong209, @TheAtlantic science journalist and author of I CONTAIN MULTITUDES bit.ly/2EsD9vo
āWhile Black Americans have been disproportionately contracting covid-19 and dying, Africaās performance shows...[that] ābeing a black person in this world doesnāt kill you, but being a black person in America clearly canā.ā washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/ā¦
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/ā¦
My colleague @edyong209 has a remarkable way of getting right to the heart of the matter: theatlantic.com/health/archiveā¦
theatlantic.com/health/archiveā¦
NEW article from me: People in non-Western countries might fare worse with Covid-19 vaccines because of how they are made wired.com/story/covid-19ā¦
āThe difference was on 9/11 we were attacked by a foreign agent,ā said Martin Quinn, whose father died in August from COVID-19 after two months of illness. āI almost feel like during the pandemic weāre attacked by our own country.ā read @ambiej: buzzfeednews.com/article/amberjā¦
buzzfeednews.com/article/amberjā¦
PHALLACY IS HERE!!!š¦š¦š¦šššš Beautiful hard copies of #PHALLACY have arrived. So excited to hold this in my hands. pic.twitter.com/oX8tw1djPJ
Soon the US will mark 200,000 deaths and the world will mark 1 million deaths. Iāve been thinking about how much of this terrible year we'll carry with us, for years or decades or generations. If we donāt take time to properly mourn, it could become a much heavier a burden 1/
I think all the time about the insight that @edyong209 writes about here āĀ part of the reason COVID-19 seems so weird is simply because so, so many people are sick theatlantic.com/health/archiveā¦
theatlantic.com/health/archiveā¦
Had considered using the same joke from this immunology piece in the new cardiology piece... theatlantic.com/health/archiveā¦
theatlantic.com/health/archiveā¦
A helpful breakdown of the reports of college athletes with asymptomatic coronavirus infections who later had heart inflammation, from @edyong209 theatlantic.com/health/archiveā¦
theatlantic.com/health/archiveā¦
Many diseases manifest in myriad ways across a large enough population. It's just that when it's not an acute pandemic, we don't have as much attention and as much research to give us the data to see the weirdness. More essential @edyong209 coverage.
theatlantic.com/health/archiveā¦
theatlantic.com/health/archiveā¦
Over the last 6 months, we've learned a lot about how SARS-CoV-2 spreadsš¦
What does the evidence so far tell us about SARS-CoV-2 transmission dynamics, high-risk activities and environments? Thread š§µ (1/n)
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfā¦
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfā¦
I think 2020 has hit maximum weird.
I hope it has hit maximum weird. I don't know if I could cope with weirder than this.
thedailybeast.com/redstate-covidā¦
thedailybeast.com/redstate-covidā¦
Well, it finally happened: ONE OF MY DREAMS CAME TRUE!
I had the privilege to discuss one of my favorite topics (viruses in the heart š) w my favorite science writer, @edyong209!
Check out his piece on #COVID19 in the heart, why it wasnāt unexpected, & why we should all care. twitter.com/edyong209/statā¦
The Atlantic does a fantastic job in presenting balance. I'm happy I was able to contribute to this discussion about COVID and the heart in a small way. This is definitely worth the time to read #Covid #heart. theatlantic.com/health/archiveā¦
theatlantic.com/health/archiveā¦
Very excited to be chatting to @HelenJMacdonald about her new book, VESPER FLIGHTS--a collection of beautiful essays about nature and our relationship with it.
Sep 23 (Wed) at 6pm EDT.
Virtual event by @politicsprose.
Tickets here --> eventbrite.com/e/pp-live-heleā¦
eventbrite.com/e/pp-live-heleā¦
Do you ever feel like weāre going 'round in circles? Like, each time it seems weāre making progress, we realize we havenāt solved the big problems yet?
@TheAtlantic's @edyong209 talks with @ASlavitt about how we stop spiraling. Listen: smarturl.it/inthebubble
#InTheBubble pic.twitter.com/64eszmHt4q
Finger on the pulse
there was a line in this about taking splashy findings to heart but @slaskow made me take it out.
so pumped
"COVID-19 is a severe disease that should be taken seriously, but itās not all that strange."
This, by @edyong209, is profoundly interesting--a rare story that has influenced my understanding of the very basics of the pandemic.
theatlantic.com/health/archiveā¦
theatlantic.com/health/archiveā¦
What I've tried to do here is to ground what we're learning about COVID-19's effects of the heart among what we know--and, crucially, what we don't know--about how viruses *in general* affect the heart. theatlantic.com/health/archiveā¦
theatlantic.com/health/archiveā¦
šØI wrote about what COVID-19 does to the heart, the controversy around the emerging science, and how it ties into this key lesson that I've talked about before: "As pandemics get wider, they feel weirder."
theatlantic.com/health/archiveā¦
theatlantic.com/health/archiveā¦
You donāt want to miss this conversation between @edyong209 and me.
Thanks entirely to Ed.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-ā¦
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-ā¦
I'm not an expert on politics but I am an expert on thinking about the future and here's what I'll say: Giving up is what they want. Feeling like things are pre-determined and set in stone is what they want. Getting you to throw your arms up and say "fuck it" is how they win.
The Atlantic's @jameshamblin calls this "the most salient warning" from Fauci in the pandemic so far: āWe must, over the next few weeks, get that baseline of infections down to 10,000 per day... if we want to maintain control of this outbreak.ā
theatlantic.com/health/archiveā¦
theatlantic.com/health/archiveā¦
.@oliviatroye is the first White House staffer from the coronavirus task force to go public with her fears about the President.
Here's what she told me: newyorker.com/news/letter-frā¦
newyorker.com/news/letter-frā¦
Absolutely. I think the *pace* of the pandemic makes these problems more evident in a way they might not be for crises that unfold over slower timescales. I think that I say in a forthcoming podcast interview that it's a "starter planetary problem."
It is tempting to see @edyong209's list of epistemic errors in the pandemic response as emblematic of countless other failures to address systemic problems.
I'm giving in to temptation.
theatlantic.com/health/archiveā¦
theatlantic.com/health/archiveā¦
Rose's work--her analysis of the future that's rooted in history & sociology, her commitment to inclusivity, her shunning of both nihilism & false optimism--has been HUGELY influential to me this year. If you like my work, pls support hers & pre-order this twitter.com/roseveleth/staā¦
āFlorida wildlife officials allege that the animals... are being poached from peopleās backyards and funneled into the nationās largest flying squirrel smuggling enterprise.ā
Wild story by @Dina_Maron
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