Eli Saslow
Voices from the Pandemic
The Washington Post, 2021
What's inside?
Many hail the vaccines for Covid-19 as a miracle, but some “long-haulers” haven’t recovered.
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In this Washington Post series, ordinary citizens and medical experts tell reporter Eli Saslow about the impact of Covid-19 on their health, livelihoods, relationships and more. In two samples from these moving accounts, Kaitlin Denis discusses suffering long-haul Covid, and Stanley Plotkin, 88, a veteran in vaccine research, expresses frustration about misinformation. He explains that science saves lives, but superstition and poor communication can create obstacles that put people at further risk. Reporters know the best way to tell a very big story is to bring it down to individual cases, and Saslow does just that.
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About the Author
Washington Post columnist Eli Saslow writes Voices from the Pandemic, a bi-weekly chronicle of Americans that Covid-19 touched. He won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for coverage of hunger in the United States and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing in 2013, 2016 and 2017.
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