Maryn @marynmck.bsky.social is so humble. A world-renowned journalist, she's one of the best interviewers around.
THIS Wed. 4/22 at 6pm ET, Maryn will discuss AFTER COVID, The Health Impacts That Will Last Generations, with @jasongale.bsky.social.
Join the convo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihdG...
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It's Friday and therefore time to remind you of an excellent event next week! On Weds 22 April at 6pm US ET, I'll talk to @jasongale.bsky.social of @bloomberg.com about his new book AFTER COVID, sponsored by @emorycshh.bsky.social.
RSVP for livestream links: humanhealth.emory.edu/events/livin...
Screenshot of a book cover. The top two thirds of the book is while with title text in pale turquoise serif font: After Covid. The subtitle is in all caps black sans serif font: The Health Impacts That Will Last Generations and the author's name is in pale brown: Jason Gale. The bottom of the book cover shows a photograph of a discarded face mask lying on the ground. The mask is the same pale turquoise color with white straps. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press. The blurb reads: A gripping investigation into the Covid-19 pandemic's lasting effects on our bodies, systems, and trust in science. The Covid-19 pandemic may have faded from headlines, but its shadow remains. In After Covid, award-winning journalist Jason Gale delivers a gripping, deeply researched account of a crisis that has fundamentally changed the world, and continues to reshape it in ways we're only beginning to understand. In this riveting account of the pandemic and its devastating ripple effects, Gale captures the pandemic's messy realities—the panic it spurred, the misinformation and political...
Doctors call it Ondine’s curse—a catastrophic failure of the brain stem in which breathing no longer happens automatically. Avindra Nath's team found regions of the brain stem that control breathing had lost neurons.
Story by @jasongale.bsky.social, here: www.asrn.org/journal-adva... #LongCOVID
Anyone who’s interested can order via the JHU Press website using code HTWN for 30% off. 😉
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Read @jasongale.bsky.social's new book AFTER COVID about the #Covid #pandemic's lasting effects on our bodies, systems, and trust in science - drawing on >3 years of reporting, hundreds of interviews, and >2,000 studies, books & reports.
This @JHUPress book is out now in UK & Europe!
#Measles outbreaks aren’t just preventable and often tragic — they’re also expensive.
A new PNAS study finds that even small drops in childhood vaccination could cost the US about $7.8 billion by 2030.
Free gift link tinyurl.com/4np7z7th
An image of a young boy receiving a vaccine from a medical provider to protect him from HPV.
20 years later: New research highlights strong benefits of HPV vaccines beyond helping to prevent cervical cancer.
Read more: ow.ly/1Iw050YJ4eT
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Put this on your calendar! On Weds 22 April at 6pm US ET, I'll talk to @jasongale.bsky.social of @bloomberg.com about his new book AFTER COVID, part of @emorycshh.bsky.social 's Health Storytelling series.
RSVP for livestream links: humanhealth.emory.edu/events/livin...
Scientists at Icahn School of Medicine have found a new way #Covid-causing SARS-CoV-2 can spread in the lungs: tiny particles shuttle key proteins between cells, effectively turning new cells into targets a bit like a Trojan horse.
Free gift link👇
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On the last Health Storytelling LIVE Author Q&A Spring 2026, Wed., April 22, @marynmck.bsky.social will speak w/ Bloomberg News Senior Editor @jasongale.bsky.social about his new book, 𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐃: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐇 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒. Set a YouTube reminder: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihdG...
I’m really looking forward to this conversation with @marynmck.bsky.social in a couple weeks -- a journalist I’ve followed and learned from for more than 20 years.
Join us if you can.
Some first-rate science writing: For this story, @jdrakephd.bsky.social carefully read our recent paper and then we spent a very fun 90 minutes or so talking on zoom. His article that gets right to the heart of our model, explains it clearly, and then explores why it will matter in the future.
3rd human #H5N1 case of 2026 in #Cambodia
A 3-year-old boy from Oddar Meanchey province, currently hospitalized and receiving treatment. 🔬🧪😷🐓🦠🥼💉
2026: 3 cases, 0 deaths
Since 2023: 37 cases, 15 deaths (CFR 40.5%)
Since 2004: 93 cases, 52 deaths (CFR 55.9%)
Think #vaping nicotine is a safe alternative to #smoking cigarettes?
A new review paper links vapes and e-cigarettes to lung and oral #cancer, challenging that view.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
There is a new COVID sublineage (BA.3.2) circulating in many regions, including here in Ontario.
*Clinical spectrum: same as before
*Diagnosis: same as before
*Risk factors: same as before
*Treatment: same as before
*Prevention: same as before
I wrote about the findings from the inquiry about the impact of the pandemic on the NHS, and the mistakes of the first year.
I hope it makes you angry - it should make us all angry.
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
Screenshot of a Bloomberg article titled “What Covid in Pregnancy May Mean for a Generation of Children.” The subheading notes research showing in-utero COVID-19 exposure may have lasting effects on brain development. A stylised illustration shows a fetus surrounded by virus-like shapes. Article by Jason Gale, published January 30, 2026, at 1:00 PM GMT+11.
"What COVID in Pregnancy May Mean for a Generation of Children."
"A growing body of research shows that exposure to COVID-19 in the womb can have a subtle but lasting impact on brain development."
Source: archive.md/7TuYF
“Adapted from After Covid: The Health Impacts That Will Last Generations, published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Copyright © 2026 by Jason Gale.”
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This event will be fabulous, Jason Gale kindly came to my class last week and ran an awesome workshop on pandemic response policy!
Llevamos varios días leyendo el libro After Covid: The health impacts that will last generations de Jason Gale por Hopkins University Press. Sigo 🧵
A horizontal white bar with pale teal borders top and bottom carries the legend Health Storytelling Live Author Q&A and bears the images of four authors: Mallary Tenore Tarpley, a smiling blonde woman; Dr. Tom Frieden, a dark-haired man wearing a suit and tie; Jason Gale, who has close-cropped hair; and host Maryn McKenna, with dark auburn hair and a black jacket. The image content announces the start of a series of livestreams interviewing these authors about their new books. The rest of the information is in the post text.
It's Nerd Book Club time again!
The Health Storytelling series of livestreamed chats with authors of new books (and me) returns this spring with Mallary Tenore Tarpley, Dr. Tom Frieden, and Jason Gale. First up: Tenore Tarpley on 18 Feb with "SLIP," on eating disorders: bit.ly/mallary-teno...
Johns Hopkins: 'After Covid: The Health Impacts That Will Last Generations'
By Jason Gale
'From the pandemic's chaotic beginnings to the hidden toll of Long Covid..he documents the consequences still unfolding: the rise of chronic illness...'
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Screenshot of a Bloomberg article titled “How Covid Quietly Rewires the Brain,” with a subheading about long-term neurological effects of SARS-CoV-2. The illustration shows a human head in profile on both sides, with a fold-out sequence of full-body figures in between, marked with scattered spots, suggesting systemic or neurological impact. The article is by Jason Gale, dated February 25, 2026.
"How Covid Quietly Rewires the Brain"
"Covid wasn’t simply causing short-term confusion, but also leaving structural and biochemical footprints in patients’ brains"
Source: archive.md/FYsGV
Cover of the book After Covid - by Jason Gale
First two pages of the chapter 19 - "Covid brain" that tells my story about how I first discovered I was looking at monkey brains infected with COVID
Finally received my copy of 'After Covid', a book by Bloomberg senior editor @jasongale.bsky.social. Thank you, Jason, for giving scientists like me the space to tell our story without political bias.
#COVID and #LongCovid also changed my life.
Get a copy here: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
3/26/26, La Jolla Institute for Immunology: "The Pandemic We Didn’t See: What We Actually Know About Long COVID & Post-Viral Disease"
Ft. LJI Associate Professor Sonia Sharma, PhD., UC SD Health cardiologist Pam Taub, MD & award-winning health journalist Jason Gale
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hn6...
A book sits on my desk entitled "after covid: The health impacts that will last generations" by Jason Gale
A little light reading @jasongale.bsky.social
Emory University: "Health Storytelling Author Q&A: Jason Gale and After COVID"
Wednesday, April 22, 2026, 6 – 7pm EDT
www.emory.edu/home/events/...
Grateful to participate in an informative panel on the science of infection-associated chronic conditions and discussion on the urgent efforts to help patients recover from #LongCovid with 3 superstars — Pam Taub, Sonia Sharma, and Erica Ollmann Saphire at @lji.org last week
