Health reporter at The Globe and Mail, https://t.co/nyIOdgp6kG. Pronounced "wen-see," she/her. 2021/22 Journalism Fellow at Massey College wleung@globeandmail.com
Aug 29, 2022 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
1/Arguably the biggest challenge of covering the pandemic (and my biggest failure) has been to convey the magnitude of suffering
2/The data are limited (case counts are likely far below the actual # of people infected), but COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths this summer have been considerably higher than last
Jun 29, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Welp. I have feeling this story isn't gonna win me any friends (sorry everybody, really!), but you might wanna hear out the arguments for a return to masking...
Reason #1: Other countries are experiencing a summer #COVID surge. “I can’t see why we would be immune from the trends that are happening in the U.S. and Europe,” says @KashPrime