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11 Nov, 8 tweets, 5 min read
🥳It's a weird time for good personal news, but I’m proud to have won a AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award, in the In-Depth Reporting category for 3 of my pandemic pieces. 1/

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To continue a trend, I’ll be donating the prize money from this one to the Capital Area Food Bank, the Native American Journalists Association, the South Asian Journalists Association, the Trans Lifeline, and the Trevor Project. 2/
Thanks as ever to my editors @andersen, @thebanderson @slaskow @PaulBisceglio for improving my work, and to the Atlantic for giving me the time, space, mandate, and support to go big. 3/
And the heartiest of congratulations to the other Kavli winners. It's especially great to see @amymaxmen win the Magazine category for her Ebola coverage. Amy's work is consistently exceptional.

Huge congrats too to @LaurenWeberHP @MRSmithAP @hannah_recht @laura_ungar @annabarryjester on their win for their amazing work documenting the threats and difficulties that public health workers have faced.

I was blown away by @Kapoor_ML's beautifully written story about an endangered catfish. hcn.org/issues/52.7/fi…
And similarly by @sarahkaplan48 stunning piece about Keith Redding, a man who died of COVID-19 in March. washingtonpost.com/science/2020/0…
And I'm running out of time and have a piece to file, so congrats to all the other winners too. Very very proud to be part of this cohort.

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13 Nov
🚨I wrote about what health-care workers are going through, how exhausted & scared they are, and what this 3rd pandemic surge is doing to them.

It’s not like the first 2. It’s worse. How much slack is left in the system? Iowa nurse: “There is none” 1/

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You’ve seen the huge numbers. Here’s what they can mean.

➡️36-hour shifts
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➡️“We’re all running on fear”
➡️“There’s only so many bags you can zip” 2/

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The issue isn’t beds or ventilators. It’s people.

In many states, there already aren’t enough nurses/docs to care for the incoming COVID-19 patients.

Here’s what it takes to care for one in an ICU. (Non-COVID patients are coming in sicker too.) 3/

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28 Oct
🚨I wrote about the upcoming election, and what the stakes are in terms of the pandemic.

The piece is short, and its gist is simple: Next week, Americans will choose whether to try and bring COVID-19 under control.

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Four true statements:

➡️Trump has epically mishandled the pandemic.

➡️He does not learn from his mistakes.

➡️COVID-19 will still be raging in 2021.

➡️Historical patterns suggest another major epidemic is likely in the next 4 years.

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The third surge is upon us. Hospitals are once again filling up. Healthcare workers are exhausted. Vaccines are still
far away.

But COVID-19 is not uncontrollable.

The playbook is clear. The US just needs a leader willing to implement it.

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19 Oct
October surprise: my laptop died.
Janky replacement laptop is operational, but it just downloaded six months worth of updates, so let's just give it some space to process.
It's like that scene in the Matrix except instead of suddenly knowing kung-fu, Neo just starts openly weeping.
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9 Oct
🚨I wrote about the rampant use of "strength" and "fighting" metaphors following Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis, the history of such language when talking about disease, and why it misleads, distracts, and makes things worse. 1/

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I spoke to doctors, immunologists, linguists, anthropologists, and psychologists about what we're really talking about when we talk about "strength" in the context of "beating" disease, and whether there's any truth to that (very common) idea. 2/ theatlantic.com/health/archive…
On Trump specifically, what he & his supporters are calling "strength" is really 2 things:
- the performance of a specific toxic version of masculinity that prizes aggression, volume, stubbornness, overconfidence, & mockery
- *enormous* privilege
3/
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10 Sep
🥳A nice thing happened! Huge thanks to the NPCJI for this incredible honour. Ironically, I'm a little lost for words. The previous awardees are incredible; I never expected to be counted among reporters of their caliber, and it means so very much.
As always, any plaudits I get must be shared with my editors @slaskow @PaulBisceglio @andersen @thebanderson who’ve sharpened and polished my work, and our leaders @SwatiGauri @AdrienneLaF @JeffreyGoldberg who’ve created space and time for us to take our biggest swings.
As before, my intention is to donate the prize money from this. I only just found out about this yesterday and need a little time to work out a plan. More, as they say, tk.
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9 Sep
🚨I wrote a new piece about the 9 errors of intuition that people keep making during the pandemic, trapping us in a spiral of bad decisions & policies. This is a guide to thinking about the crisis & breaking free from that endless loop. 1/

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Beating COVID-19 isn't just about more tests/masks. Many of the problems that have tripped us up are conceptual. Magical thinking. False dichotomies. Conflating imperfect with useless. Blaming individuals over fixing systems. I've listed 9. 2/

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These errors of intuition cropped up in debates over masks, social-distancing, ventilation, colleges. They’ll appear again when we have a vaccine. Winter is coming. We must reset, and "adjust our thinking to match the problem before us.” 3/

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