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🛑I wrote about what “fatigue” 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.
Find me on Bluesky or through my newsletter: buttondown.email/edyong209.
- 🧵Some personal news: I’m taking a 6-month sabbatical, starting now. These past 3 years have been the most professionally meaningful of my life, but they’ve also deeply broken me. The pandemic isn’t over, but after a long time spent staring into the sun, I need to blink. 1/
- 🚨🚨Here’s the big piece I’ve been promising: an Atlantic cover story about the US’s catastrophic mishandling of the pandemic. It’s a full autopsy of what went wrong, every unattended weakness & unheeded warning, every festering wound & reopened scar. 1/
- 🚨I wrote about “brain fog”—one of the most common & disabling symptoms of long COVID (and many other pre-pandemic conditions), and one of the most misunderstood. Here’s what brain fog actually is, and what it’s 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/archiv…
- 🚨I wrote about immunocompromised people—what they’ve been through, their frustrations, and their hopes. This is a plea to think about those who don’t get to be done with the pandemic, and to prioritize them as a matter of moral and medical urgency. 1/
- Replying to @edyong209I’ll be splitting the prize money between everyone who worked on my pieces last year—every 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.
