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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RadioActive
Overwhelmed with the return to school, Seattle teens are withdrawing into their cocoons
Educators and parents hoped being back in classrooms would be a positive change for teens — but everyone is learning it’s not so straightforward.
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KUOW Newsroom
Parents fret about desk distances. Expert says ventilation does more to keep kids safe
The Seattle school district only requires that students be three feet apart; that’s in line with the CDC’s latest guidelines. But, with the very contagious Delta variant causing a surge in Covid cases, a lot of parents worry that’s not nearly far enough.
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KUOW Newsroom
This pregnant mom nearly died from Covid. It hasn’t convinced her to get the vaccine
The Covid vaccines are safe and effective during pregnancy. And yet, two out of three pregnant people are unvaccinated.
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"The pack is back," and UW students are thrilled. Professors, maybe less so
After a year and a half of online classes, UW students are thrilled to be back in person. But not everyone on campus is as excited. Some faculty members say the school isn’t doing enough to prevent the spread of Covid as students and professors return to classrooms and dining halls.
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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.’