Category: Ed Yong
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An Interview with Journalist Ed Yong
In the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, journalist Ed Yong played a key role in alerting the public to the wave of people suffering prolonged symptoms after an acute bout of COVID-19—the phenomenon that has come to be called long Covid. Yong, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coronavirus coverage in The Atlantic,…
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An Interview with Journalist Ed Yong
In the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, journalist Ed Yong played a key role in alerting the public to the wave of people suffering prolonged symptoms after an acute bout of COVID-19—the phenomenon that has come to be called long Covid. Yong, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coronavirus coverage in The Atlantic,…
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DecodeME Team Describes Study Sample; The Atlantic’s Ed Yong Covers PEM; STAT Busts NIH’s Stumbling Long Covid Efforts
DecodeME paper finds ME/CFS severity linked to being female, being older and being sick longer DecodeME is a high-profile genome-wide association study (GWAS) that is seeking to identify DNA differences between people with ME/CFS and those without it. To date, more than 17,000 people in the UK who report having been diagnosed with ME/CFS have…
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Some Recent Long Covid Articles from STAT/MuckRock, The Atlantic, and Nieman Reports
STAT and MuckRock co-publish investigative report slamming NIH’s RECOVER initiatve Earlier this month, I wrote about the problem of exercise studies for long Covid that were failing to adequately address the issue of post-exertional malaise—including an announced project being funded by the National Institute’s of Health’s much-ballyhooed RECOVER initiative. Now STAT, the health and medical…