I wrote an op-ed for the NYT about what reporting on long COVID has meant to me—how I approached it, the impact it had, and how it taught me to be a better journalist.
This piece is sort of a manifesto for a journalism grounded in compassion, rigor, and care.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/opinion/long-covid-reporting-lessons.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FE0.S-VX.KZ_h7BgOL3m2&smid=url-share
This piece is sort of a manifesto for a journalism grounded in compassion, rigor, and care.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/opinion/long-covid-reporting-lessons.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FE0.S-VX.KZ_h7BgOL3m2&smid=url-share
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We need to re-establish how we work with communities of people with a disability or chronic illness.
Thanks for writing this.
I’m not cheap. I bought five “Immense World” hardbacks at full retail.
Some things are worth the money—that book and your local bookstore.
cDC. Berlin Buyers Club. The public needs to hear how they can fight covid.
I’m not the only person who has been dismissed from that clinic and it’s maddening.
Just like Long Covid seems to find and exploit mostly hidden or long-dormant problems in your body, the pandemic reveals and exacerbates systemic problems in our civic body. Private healthcare & insurance, terrible public health & sick-leave policies, YOLO/FOMO capitalism….
ing COVID and keeping my family safe. I jumped in to get food to >75,000 frontline workers & saw a lot during the early days in Seattle. It was awful.
Thanks for writing and sharing it.
Thanks for your reporting on long Covid. We have a friend disabled by long Covid. We’ve read and discussed all of your articles. They helped.
And thanks for acknowledging that science and journalism are human and social activities. Empathy matters. As a scientist, I want my work to matter.
If I ever happen to get better enough to work full-time again, very high on the list of career changes I'm considering is going into nonfiction writing, perhaps science journalism, due in no small part to witnessing the alchemy of your work.
This is so important and validating.
I hadn't ever considered journalism as a care-taking profession...and now all the possibilities!
Thank you for continuing to shine light into the abyss. 💫💖🫂