Science Journalist Ed Yong on the Future of the Pandemic

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🗓️ 16 July 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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As California and many other states struggle to contain a surge in COVID-19 cases, science journalist Ed Yong says we’re now more vulnerable to additional disasters, including a possible second pandemic. In his new article in The Atlantic, Yong says diminishing resources, strained international relations and demoralized experts have America on it’s heels. We’ll talk to Yong about what he’s learned during months of reporting on the pandemic and what he thinks the US should be doing now to control it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.8	Coming up on forum, science journalist Ed Yong says he first began worrying about the possibility of a second pandemic back in March when the coronavirus was taking hold in the United States.
0:59.6	But it felt needlessly alarmist to fret about it then.
1:03.2	Young doesn't feel that way anymore.
1:05.0	He joins us to share what he's learned over months of reporting on the pandemic for the Atlantic and from his conversation yesterday
1:11.3	with Dr. Anthony Fauci about our prospects for bringing the virus under control. Join us.
1:16.9	Thank you. This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim.
1:37.1	Even as the nation struggles to contain the coronavirus, science journalist Ed Yong says America must prepare for another virus. The only certainty is that
1:46.3	pandemics are inevitable, Yang writes, in his latest piece for the Atlantic. So it's only a matter of time
1:52.2	before two emerge at once. The problem is that the U.S. is now in an even weaker position to deal with it
1:58.6	or any other disaster. Ed Yong has been reporting deeply on the pandemic for months,
2:04.6	from how we got here to what we must do to end it.
2:07.6	And he joins us now.
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