Eilis O'Neill
Reporter
About
Eilís (eye-LEASH) O'Neill fell in love with radio when she was a 14-year-old high school intern at KUOW, in the program that later became RadioActive. Since then, she's worked as a radio reporter in South America and New York City and was thrilled to return to her hometown radio station in 2017. Her work has appeared on The World, Marketplace, and NPR.
Eilís has a degree in English and Spanish from Oberlin College and a master’s degree in science, environment and health journalism from Columbia University.
Stories
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Many Seattle-area kids with Covid are old enough to be vaccinated
About half of the Covid patients at Seattle Children’s during this latest surge have been kids who could have been vaccinated, but weren’t.
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KUOW Newsroom
Why this Seattle business owner is 'ecstatic' about King County's new vaccine rule
If you've been to a bar or restaurant or you've seen a live show indoors recently, you may have been asked to prove you're vaccinated against Covid-19. In October, count on it.
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KUOW Newsroom
Breakthrough cases have you headed for the bunker? Experts say vaccines are working
Breakthrough cases — vaccinated people testing positive for the coronavirus — have people wondering if the vaccines work as well as they were supposed to, or if their immunity is waning. The short answer is, yes, they are doing their job. Just 0.5% percent (that’s one out of every 200) of Washington state’s fully vaccinated residents have tested positive for the coronavirus.
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EPA to ban neurotoxic pesticide sprayed on NW apples and Christmas trees
The Environmental Protection Agency is partially banning a pesticide that’s been linked to neurological damage in children and fetuses. For decades, chlorpyrifos has been widely sprayed on apples, pears, Christmas trees and other crops in the Pacific Northwest.
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Hazy skies and heat blanket the Pacific Northwest
As smoke from wildfires in British Columbia and Central Washington blanketed the Puget Sound region on Friday, workers at a construction site in Seattle's the University District tried their best to stay cool.
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KUOW Newsroom
As vaccination rates stagger and delta looms, Washington's road out of the pandemic remains uncertain
‘We're seeing many more new cases every day now than we were during last summer's peak.’
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What we know about breakthrough Covid in Washington state – and what we don’t
How common are breakthrough cases in Washington state? Not common at all. From January 17 till July 24, only about 0.1% of fully vaccinated Washingtonians tested positive for Covid.
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In this Covid hot zone, unvaccinated people fear side effects — or want more answers
Covid cases in Walla Walla have come roaring back. It now has one of the highest rates of Covid per capita in the country. This month, it had more daily cases than it did during the worst of last summer’s surge. That’s in part due to low vaccination rates. In Walla Walla County, half the population is unvaccinated.
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King County health official recommends going back to masking up indoors
Even if you're fully vaccinated, King County's health officer recommends wearing a mask in indoor public places.
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Retired lab chimps move to a sanctuary near Seattle — but it's not easy
In 2015, the U.S. outlawed using chimpanzees in biomedical research except in very rare circumstances, because the species is endangered. Since then, all government-owned labs, and some that are privately owned, have been trying to transfer the chimps in their care to sanctuaries.