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Science writer. Author of AN IMMENSE WORLD.

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Bay Area buttondown.email/edyong209 Joined January 2009

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Ed Yong is not here @edyong209 Jul 27, 2023

🛑I wrote about what “fatigue” really means for people with long COVID and ME/CFS, and why this profoundly debilitating symptom is so often misunderstood and trivialized.

(This piece also covers PEM.) 1/

theatlantic.com/health/archive…

www.theatlantic.com Fatigue Can Shatter a Person Everyday tiredness is nothing like the depleting symptom that people with long COVID and ME/CFS experience.

Ed Yong is not here @edyong209 Aug 29, 2023

AN IMMENSE WORLD is out in paperback today 🥳

Ed Yong is not here @edyong209 Aug 12, 2023

I absolutely adored CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS, by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.

A devastating satire about the US carceral state taken to its logical conclusion: televised gladiatorial combat.

A profound love story about finding hope & dignity amid oppression.

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Ed Yong is not here @edyong209 Aug 9, 2023

I urge you to read this.

Ed Yong is not here @edyong209 Aug 5, 2023

The paperback of AN IMMENSE WORLD is out in just a few weeks (Aug 29), and you can preorder it now!

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