The Quarantine Tapes: A week-day program from Onassis LA and dublab. Hosted by Paul Holdengräber, the series chronicles shifting paradigms in the age of social distancing. Each day, Paul calls a guest for a brief discussion about how they are experiencing the global pandemic.

About episode 126:

On episode 126 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by journalist Ed Yong. Ed has spent the months of quarantine reporting on the pandemic. In their discussion, Ed unravels how we have to look at all aspects of our society to even begin understanding how this pandemic is affecting us.

Ed brings his expertise on the pandemic to bear in an episode that covers how we got to this point of crisis, where we are now, and what it may take to control the pandemic. Ed tells Paul about many of the topics he’s reported on in the past few months, including nursing homes, contact tracing, and COVID “long haulers,” before touching on the personal challenges of reporting in such a difficult moment.

Ed Yong is a science journalist who reports for The Atlantic, and is based in Washington DC.
His work appears on The Atlantic’s website and its print magazine; it has also featured in National Geographic, the New Yorker, Wired, Nature, New Scientist, Scientific American, and many more. He has won several awards, including the Victor Cohn Prize for medical science reporting and the Neil and Susan Sheehan Award for investigative journalism in 2020; the Michael E. DeBakey Journalism Award for biomedical reporting in 2016; the Byron H. Waksman Award for Excellence in the Public Communication of Life Sciences in 2016; and the National Academies Keck Science Communication Award in 2010. He regularly does talks and interviews, and his TED talk on mind-controlling parasites has been watched by over 1.5 million people.

I CONTAIN MULTITUDES, his first book, looks at the amazing partnerships between animals and microbes. Published in 2016, it became a New York Times bestseller, and was listed in best-of-2016 lists by the NYT, NPR, the Economist, the Guardian, and several others. Bill Gates called it “science journalism at its finest”, and Jeopardy! turned it into a clue. His second book, AN IMMENSE WORLD, will look at the extraordinary sensory worlds of other animals.

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