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Ed Yong on the Pandemic’s Legacy on Science Research and Reporting

2025/3/24
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Ed Yong: 我认为美国对疫情的准备工作是一种幻想，这不仅是因为特朗普政府的失误，还因为美国社会和治理结构中存在的固有缺陷，这些缺陷使我们容易受到疫情的严重打击。在疫情初期，我们对病毒知之甚少，只能采取居家令来减缓疫情传播，而没有采取其他更有效的措施。此外，美国社会存在的诸多问题，例如带薪病假制度的缺失、公众信任度和政府信任度低下等，都加剧了疫情的严重性。各州无法单独应对疫情，因为传染病具有跨州传播的特性，需要集体应对。长期以来，美国社会结构中存在的医疗保健系统、聚集性环境以及社会信任度等问题，使得我们对疫情的应对能力不足。 长期新冠的出现也改变了我们对病毒相互作用基本生物学的看法，它与长期存在的疾病如ME/CFS非常相似。长期新冠患者常面临社会排斥，被告知他们的症状不存在，这加剧了他们的痛苦。我们应该对疫情初期医护人员的表现给予充分的理解和同情，因为他们面临着巨大的压力和资源匮乏。 Alexis Madrigal: 作为一名记者，我见证了疫情期间科学传播中的一些错误，例如试图提供确定性，并试图引导人们做出特定的行为。在疫情传播中，应该坦诚面对不确定性，并向人们解释为什么我们不确定，以及我们可以做些什么来获得答案。疫情暴露出公共卫生传播方式的不足，在长期持续的危机中，与其向人们传递信息，不如教会他们如何思考问题。更隐蔽的问题是反生产性的分析框架，例如将疫情视为个人问题而非集体问题。尽管信息环境恶化，但人们仍然在努力理解世界，并通过集体努力来应对。

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During the pandemic, former Atlantic writer Ed Yong became a trusted source for news about COVID and its impact. In 2021 he won a Pulitzer Prize for that work, which often was about “the massive gulf between what you want the world to be and what you see happening around you.” As part of our series looking at the legacy of the pandemic five years on, we talk to Yong about how COVID changed our relationship with health news, reporting and research.

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**Ed Yong, **science journalist and author, "An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us." Yong won the 2021 Pulitzer prize for his writing in the Atlantic about the Covid-19 pandemic.

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