Ed Yong, whose articles for The Atlantic were essential reading for anyone following the course of the pandemic, has won a well-deserved Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.
Yong anticipated the course of the pandemic, clarified its dangers, and illuminated the American government’s disastrous failure to curb it. “Despite months of advance warning as the virus spread in other countries, when America was finally tested by COVID-19, it failed,” he wrote in March 2020. (That story, “How the Pandemic Will End,” is one of the most-read pieces in Atlantic history.)
Last August, in a blog post about some articles about COVID-19, I wrote: " This week has been a big week for important articles about COVID-19. Several of them are by The Atlantic's staff writer, Ed Yong, who has been writing about the pandemic since March. I have seen mentions of a Pulitzer prize for him, and I would be very surprised if he doesn't win one. All of these are worth your time,"
I'm glad to see I was right.
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