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b'Ed Yong spent 2020 covering the pandemic for The Atlantic. His latest feature is "How Science Beat the Virus."\\n\\n\\u201cI am trying to give readers a platform that they can stand on to observe this raging torrent that is the pandemic, this cascade of information that is threatening to sweep us all away. I\\u2019m trying to give people a rock on which they can stand so that they can observe what is happening without themselves being submerged by it. But I am trying to construct that platform while also being submerged in it.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to Mailchimp for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n\\nShow notes:\\n\\n@edyong209\\nedyong.me\\nYong on Longform\\nLongform Podcast #386: Ed Yong\\nYong\'s archive at The Atlantic\\n08:00 "How the Pandemic Will End" (The Atlantic \\u2022 Mar 2020)\\n08:00 "The Giant Pool of Money" (Alex Blumberg, Adam Davidson, and Planet Money \\u2022 This American Life \\u2022 May 2008)\\n16:00 "Our Pandemic Summer" (The Atlantic \\u2022 Apr 2015)\\n16:00 "What the Racial Data Show" (Ibram X. Kendi \\u2022 The Atlantic \\u2022 Apr 2020)\\n18:00 "How the Pandemic Defeated America" (The Atlantic \\u2022 Sep 2020)\\n19:00 "How Science Beat the Virus" (The Atlantic \\u2022 Jan 2021)\\n34:00 "Q&A with Ed Yong" (Delia Cai \\u2022 Deez Links \\u2022 Nov 2020)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'