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šI wrote about what āfatigueā really means for people with long COVID and ME/CFS, and why this profoundly debilitating symptom is so often misunderstood and trivialized.
(This piece also covers PEM.) 1/
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@edyong209
Science writer. Author of AN IMMENSE WORLD.
Not on Twitter any more.
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- š§µSome personal news: Iām taking a 6-month sabbatical, starting now. These past 3 years have been the most professionally meaningful of my life, but theyāve also deeply broken me. The pandemic isnāt over, but after a long time spent staring into the sun, I need to blink. 1/
- šØšØHereās the big piece Iāve been promising: an Atlantic cover story about the USās catastrophic mishandling of the pandemic. Itās a full autopsy of what went wrong, every unattended weakness & unheeded warning, every festering wound & reopened scar. 1/
- šØI wrote about ābrain fogāāone of the most common & disabling symptoms of long COVID (and many other pre-pandemic conditions), and one of the most misunderstood. Hereās what brain fog actually is, and what itās like to live with it. 1/
- Replying to @jonathanchaitSaying nothing at all is an option that is permanently available to you, and that I urge you to more frequently consider. The same goes for tagging me into your thoughts.
- 2020: Can I go running? 2021: My brother is a fully vaxxed Scorpio who only lies and my roommate is an unvaccinated INTJ who only tells the truth; how do we attend a 124-person outdoor wedding across a river with a fox, a chicken, and a sack of grain, and only one mask?
- Here's a thing I want everyone to understand. There is a roughly 12-day lag between rising cases rising hospitalizations. So the 1.5 million (!!!) confirmed cases from the last 2 weeks have not yet factored into stories about packed emergency rooms. theatlantic.com/science/archivā¦
- šØI wrote about immunocompromised peopleāwhat theyāve been through, their frustrations, and their hopes. This is a plea to think about those who donāt get to be done with the pandemic, and to prioritize them as a matter of moral and medical urgency. 1/
- Replying to @edyong209Iāll be splitting the prize money between everyone who worked on my pieces last yearāevery editor, copy editor, fact checker, artist, and more. Even when individuals win Pulitzers, their work depends on a community. I want to honor mine.
- "When scientists say bears are going extinct, I want people to realize what it looks like," says photographer Paul Nicklen. "Bears are going to starve to death."
- About those "murder hornets": Japanese honeybees defend themselves by swarming the hornets & vibrating their wing muscles. This is called "heatballing." It raises the temperature and CO2 levels inside the ball. The hornets cook and choke to death. <stares directly into camera>
- A little ray of joy in bleak times: Here's my corgi Typo, who turns 1 today, and is dressed for the occasion.
