Thank you. I'm not judging people for them, but we can try and resist them. It was going to be very seductive…. The specific way in which it's been hard is that is you can't report on this without being completely immersed in it. It is very hard to write pieces that try to jump ahead a couple of months and try to show people what might happen in the future and to actually see that play out again and again. I think of the information around the pandemic as rapids, really fast flowing torrential water. It's so easy to be swept up in it and feel like you're being carried along, feeling like you're drowning in it. Is America Ready? Despite declaring himself a “wartime president,” he merely presided over … © 1996 - 2021 NewsHour Productions LLC. It's also more deadly than your — your — even your strenuous flus. The Atlantic’s Ed Yong warned in a 2018 article that the world was underprepared for the next pandemic. And this is absolutely the opposite of what has actually happened, as we have heard from Woodward's tapes. It sows distrust in expertise. Most stock quote data provided by BATS. This virus is deadly and spreads well, but it … Maybe the best is a story from the Atlantic's Ed Yong, which includes an epic 212-word sentence. In the same year he received three awards from ResearchBlogging.org, which supports online science journalism focused on covering research that has already been published in pe… The COVID-19 pandemic is unleashing a wave of labor unrest across California and the nation. These instincts that I have talked about in my recent piece, these intuitions that lead us astray are pretty universal. I want to be very mindful about people's time. This is 5 per — this is 5 percent vs. 1 percent and less than 1 percent. To go back to the rapids analogy, I am trying to build a rock for everyone else to stand on while also being swept away myself all the time. Our Pandemic Summer The fight against the coronavirus won’t be over when the U.S. reopens. I have never worked so hard to be right while also desperately hoping to be wrong. Here’s how the nation must prepare itself. Our viewers are probably making them now. How the Pandemic Will End The U.S. may end up with the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the industrialized world. Amidst all of this, is there anything that you look at coming forward in the winter or perhaps a vaccine or this coming flu season that gives you hope? You know, in many ways, this is, by far, not the worst pandemic we could be seeing. ", wrote a piece recently about how we need to actually be prepared for what happens if we have another pandemic. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/ed-yong-on-pandemic-trump-reinforced-americans-worst-impulses, Residents face harrowing escape from ‘unprecedented’ western wildfires, News Wrap: Fire erupts at Beirut port a month after blast, Why congressional stalemate over pandemic relief won’t end anytime soon. This is how it’s going to play out. “Ed Yong’s writings, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, are a testimony to the need for cogent science journalism today,” said Jeannette E. Riley, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Firstly, this is not just a science story and we shouldn't pretend that it is. And he's contributed to this fraying of the national understanding of this crisis. His repeated attempts to downplay the pandemic, which we have heard now in stark detail, have lured much of the country into a false sense of security. There's a huge sociological component like the health inequalities, the ways in which poverty and racism and discrimination have collided to mean that certain communities — Black and Brown and indigenous and disabled and elderly and poor people — have been disproportionately hit by this virus. ... Ed Yong is a staff writer at The Atlantic… I'm reading a reasonable number of papers. You have probably made them. And they have done that in the face of bad communication, lies, poor leadership from the federal government. We have built a world that is very vulnerable and lacking in resilience and unable to deal with these big challenges. So, our attention flits from social distancing to masks to treatments to up — coming up soon a vaccine. In. I have made them. On February 7, this is what President Trump said to Woodward about the novel coronavirus: You just breathe the air, and that's how it's passed. Initially, it contributes to laxity. All Rights Reserved. When Ed Yong covered the 2018 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, he saw that the virus forced families to abandon traditional … There's a growing distrust of institutions, and I don't just mean driven by conspiracy theories. Morningstar: Copyright 2018 Morningstar, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Ed Yong Since March, Yong has written 13 stories about the pandemic for The Atlantic. MCCAMMON: So we wanted to talk with Ed Yong, a staff writer at The Atlantic, to take stock of where we are in this pandemic. There's a few things there. Is America Ready?" I worry that people will get inured to tragedy. We discuss why that makes the … "Different parts of the U.S. are experiencing this pandemic in very different ways," science writer Ed Yong says. 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Buckley: Ed, talk a little bit about the challenges in those early days of covering this pandemic. In March he predicted that the United States could have the worst outbreak of the industrialized world. And I have argued in my latest piece about America's pandemic spiral that a disaster of this magnitude was always going to be difficult for us to get our heads around, right? Even in good times, it's sometimes truly shocking to me how much time researchers and academics are willing to give reporters. You have heard the Woodward tape, where the president certainly seems to understand the severity of the coming pandemic. Now, maybe they can hold that for the long term. Some journalists in the U.S. have been praised for their coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic including Ed Yong and Helen Branswell. In June, on the phone with FOX News, as the U.S. saw roughly 20,000 new cases every day, he said this: It's fading away. We tend to focus on blaming individuals, rather than fixing broken systems. Yong's approach to popular science writing has been described as "the future of science news", and he has received numerous awards for his work. So, that's one issue. The Atlantic's September issue cover previews two features: "Why the Virus Won" by Ed Yong and "The Power of American Denial" by Ibram X. Kendi. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. and its licensors. New York (CNN Business)The Atlantic's science writer Ed Yong wrote a feature in 2018 with the headline, "The Next Plague Is Coming. That is something that I didn't talk about at all in the 2018 piece, and now it seems like a glaring gap in hindsight, and it's something I've specifically tried to address. Part of my training as a science journalist is to understand that the published scientific literature should not be taken as gospel. Trump and many of his associates have instead exacerbated these bad intuitions by feeding people lies, misinformation, a false sense of security, this longing desire to return to normal. You can read all of his work at TheAtlantic.com. Ed, very good to have you on the "NewsHour.". Atlantic staff writer Ed Yong has spoken with more than 100 experts since the early stages of the pandemic. But I think the fact that we have media channels with massive audiences that are consistently saying the wrong things is inevitably a huge problem. I mean, this is a tough, big nation to govern. I've actually just come back from a much needed week off where I completely unplugged. William Brangham explores some of those questions now. I realized this morning that this would have been the last week of my book leave. And then yet we saw many examples of him both talking very differently about it in public, and, some would argue, acting very differently in his role as chief executive. The vast majority of those sources I did not know before 2020. The pandemic grew huge in scope, entangling every aspect of society, and maxing out our capacity to deal with complexity. KINGSTON, R.I. – Nov. 2, 2020 – In the last eight months, science journalist Ed Yong has written 19 consecutive stories for The Atlantic about the COVID-19 pandemic – stories that range between 2,000 and 8,000 words chronicling the nation’s failed response to the crisis, the science behind the virus, and the work of scientists to combat it. All rights reserved. Ed Yong explores various ways in which the U.S has failed to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, and during this exploration, reveals several ethical dilemmas and issues that was either highlighted due to the pandemic, or arose in the midst of responding to the pandemic. He has been chronicling COVID-19 and the … The COVID-19 pandemic has produced great journalism. Two years ago, science writer Ed Yong wrote an article for The Atlantic in which he warned that a new global pandemic was inevitable — and that the world would be … But at that time, in public, the president was describing the gravity of the situation differently. We need to do testing, we need to do contact tracing, we need masks, we need to put all these measures together. You write: "The country has consistently thought about the pandemic in these same unproductive ways.". So I'm in a much better position. Trump is not, by far, the only reason why America has failed so badly to control COVID-19, but he is central to the country's failure. You could argue about successes and failures to do that across the board. CNN Sans ™ & © 2016 Cable News Network. — Ed Yong Ed Yong has written some of the defining articles of the COVID era. It's going to fade away. And that is a big risk going forward, that the unacceptable will come to be acceptable. Listen Journalist Ed Yong on pandemic response, future of new coronavirus. ED YONG: Yeah, absolutely. Ed Yong of The Atlantic, who has reported extensively on America's pandemic response, joins William Brangham to discuss. Ed Yong The Atlantic Mar 2020 20 min This is more deadly. On a recent episode of The Gist, Mike Pesca spoke with science writer Ed Yong of the Atlantic. Subscribe to ‘Here's the Deal,’ our politics newsletter. While the political fallout from President Trump’s coronavirus comments to Bob Woodward continues, what about the public health repercussions? What do you mean by that? Hope that's true. The influenza pandemic that began in 1918 killed as many as 100 million people over two years. I want to be clear here that I have it a lot better than a lot of folks. Several showcase his ability to stay one step ahead of the curve while others aim to combat the spread of misinformation. In some ways, the pandemic should be a wake up call. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. Give me some examples of that. Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else. And so that's a very tricky one. What I think really good journalism can do is to act as a rock in the middle of that fast flow to give people stable ground where they can stand and observe what is moving past them without being carried along by it. “A patchwork pandemic” — that’s how science writer Ed Yong describes what’s likely to happen as states deal with COVID-19 in their own ways. The pandemic discourse has been dominated by medical countermeasures like antibody tests ... Ed Yong is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he covers science. Ed Yong September 21, 2020 America Is Trapped in a Pandemic Spiral As the U.S. heads toward the winter, the country is going round in circles, making the … Two weeks after the Woodward call, there was this reassurance: The next month, the president was implying in a tweet that the flu was much worse than the virus. So, I think, actually, one of the best signs is that, in the Northeast, a lot of places that were hit originally very hard by the pandemic have actually managed to hold the line, kept cases pretty low throughout much of the spring and summer. The fact that a lot of those outlets were severely downplaying the threat of the pandemic, even at a point when it was clear that this was going to be a disaster, helps to fuel reticence of action at a time when people really needed to be acting. So, for example, we bounced from one solution to another, without really understanding that, to control a pandemic, you need a lot of different solutions. They have taken to things like masks, which were unfamiliar, social distancing. How do we measure the consequences of the president's actions? It sows division. Please check your inbox to confirm. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Courtesy of Ed Yong “People of the Pandemic” is a series exploring the COVID-19 experience through brief, vivid interludes in the lives of interesting people across spectrums of class, occupation, age, ethnicity and geography — sketches of our world’s new temporary normal. In general, Americans have actually done a lot. Joining me now to discuss the president's response, as well as our broader national response, is one of the journalists who has covered this crisis as well as anyone that I have read, Ed Yong at "The Atlantic" magazine. We cannot just continue in the same ways that we have been. So this is deadly stuff. The science journalists I respect the most are the ones who are good at this and understand that the job is not just to say what these papers are showing, but to actually work up whether they're true or not. [Read: Ed Yong on living in a patchwork pandemic] Trump never rallied the country. Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc.2018. Most people have been quoted in just one story. And it's not good. But there are also questions about what more could or should have been done when President Trump realized that the coronavirus was much more serious than he was publicly acknowledging at the time. Regardless of which administration was in power, it would be all too seductive to want to return to normal, to fail to grasp the size and scope of the problem. Ed Yong: So, for example, we bounced from one solution to another, without really understanding that, to control a pandemic, you need a lot of … You know, we have seen what happens when you put someone who lies consistently, who doesn't trust to expertise, who chooses to feed his own ego, rather than to look after the welfare of his citizens. Rather than counteracting those instincts and showing the country a way out, they deepened and worsened every faulty intuition that we will naturally succumb to. They discuss the "patchwork pandemic" we are experiencing, where the country is divided on how it's responding to -- and being impacted by -- COVID-19. "The Next Plague Is Coming. All times are ET. Yong received the National Academies Communication Award from the National Academy of Sciences in 2010 in recognition of his online journalism, then part of Discover's blog group. Ed Yong in The Atlantic says pandemics get fixed by three things: herd immunity, where 60 percent of the public gets sick and enough of the virus falls into survivor-immune bodies to … These papers, even those that have been through peer review, shouldn't just be taken for granted. People who are working day in and day out, like I am, to fight this thing are still happy to hop on the phone for half an hour, an hour of their time and share their expertise. Three days later, the president said this: Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away. His recent work is a must-read for anyone trying to understand the crisis. The political fallout from the president's comments to journalist Bob Woodward about the coronavirus remains to be seen. The answer gleaned from the 8,600 word piece was more or less "no.". I don't think there's anyone who I have quoted in more than three stories. That idea has informed so much of our coverage choices before the pandemic and now during it. In a crisis like this, it is so important for people to get clear, evidence-based, consistent messaging. This could be a chance to build a better world. You can get quite a lot of that analysis on Twitter because there is a massive, very vocal, very engaged community of researchers who are all talking constantly about what's new and what's coming out. He covers science there, which these days means COVID-19. The L.A. Times is a leading source of breaking news, entertainment, sports, politics, and more for Southern California and the world. Connect Twitter. There's a lot to be grateful for, and I'm aware of a lot of privileges that I'm still enjoying throughout all of this. The president says he was trying to avoid creating a panic. Would America have fared better if Trump had treated the virus more seriously from the beginning? Several people I've talked to a few times over. Disclaimer. The Washington Post yesterday revealed that, for his new book, Bob Woodward interviewed President Trump numerous times. So, I think that's why clear, evidence-based communication from leaders is so important. But, devil's advocate, how — we are an enormous country. The things you're talking about, I'm just curious what you would see as a possible remedy for that, which I would agree that larger societal problem, how do we remedy that? I had a discussion with my editors about possibly pivoting back towards the end of the year. Ed Yong, a science writer for The Atlantic, writes that the U.S. is caught in a "pandemic spiral." That's a very delicate one. “Yong stands as an exemplar for our students to strive for as they develop their own careers. Among media scholars, many elements of mainstream journalists' efforts to adapt to the pandemic and provide reliable information to their audience have been praised, but some have been criticized. So, it's very easy to point a finger at someone who is having a party or someone not wearing a mask correctly than it is to look at all the broken institutions, the carceral state, the health care system, nursing homes, and all the rest that have jeopardized America's health. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices Copyright S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2018 and/or its affiliates. Patient "rooms" are set up at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, which is … They come to learn how to think about the news." Absolutely no one wants to hear this, but I. The country has this tendency to go from moralism, instead of putting in the structures that will allow people to make better choices. Today on "Epidemic," Dr. Celine Gounder speaks with Dr. Howard Koh, Professor of Public Health Leadership at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Ed Yong, staff writer for the Atlantic. While it is important to hold them accountable, Ed Yong has documented some of the other reasons why the United States is “trapped in a pandemic spiral.” … Since March, Yong has written 13 stories about the pandemic for The Atlantic. And that, to me, is encouraging for the fall and winter. Two years later, as the coronavirus pandemic tears through the US, Yong continues to explore the consequences of that lack of preparedness. In that most recent piece in "The Atlantic" that you mentioned, you also point the finger at our national citizens' response more broadly. We have wildly different education levels. Our editor in chief, Jeff [Goldberg], has long said something like, "People don't come to The Atlantic to read the news. We need all of these things. Ed Yong is a science journalist who reports for The Atlantic.He is based in Washington, DC. When we start getting closer to the election or in the midst of it, when the main story at the time pivots to something that isn't the pandemic, maybe this is a time where I can sort of quietly sneak offstage for a bit. All rights reserved. Well, we have seen what happens when the person in charge of a country's response is not up to the task. I'm exceptionally blown away by that generosity of time right now. Learn more about Friends of the NewsHour. I think it all depends on what the next few months will bring. Several showcase his ability to stay one step ahead of the … Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. All right, Ed Yong of "The Atlantic" magazine. But we seem to only focus on one thing at a time. It helps if leaders show a way out, if they provide clear communication. But when the person in charge is actively telling citizens, everything is fine, it's going to go away, when he's boosting this tendency to succumb to magical thinking or silver bullets, then things start getting really problematic.
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