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Oh, now it's good. Hey, too, Rob. Nice to hear your voice, too. Huddled without the hassle. In Slack.

Hey, this is Evan. You're a long-form podcast co-host. And we're doing something a little

different all this week on the show in collaboration with the George Poke Awards. Each day this

week, one of the hosts, myself, Max or Erin, will have an interview with one of the winners

of the 2020 Poke Awards, representing the best and most influential journalism of last

year. For this one, it was my great pleasure to talk to Helen Brantzwell, who is the senior

writer at stat news, covering infectious disease and global health. She was absolutely essential

reading over the course of the pandemic, truly from its earliest moments, which we talk

about, and continues to be up until right now. In any given week in the past year and

three months or so, if you wanted to know what scientists understood about the virus, what

was going on with vaccine development, Helen's work had the answers. And I spoke to her recently

about how she managed to cover this pandemic so relentlessly. So here's my conversation

with Helen and tune in the rest of the week for more interviews with George Poke Award winners.

Hi, Helen, and welcome to The Long From Podcast, and also congratulations on your 2020

Poke Award. Thanks, Evan. It's a real thrill. I'm very excited to talk to you. It's excited

as maybe not the right word, because reading all of your work over the past year, it takes

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