Wearing down the experts, at our peril
“Expertise is not a renewable resource. It is finite. There is only so much of it to go around, and we are throwing it away.”
Public health experts are working around the clock offering prevention measures that the government fails to implement – and receiving death threats for their pains. Several high level officials have departed their posts in recent weeks.
Science writer Ed Yong's latest piece for The Atlantic, on burnout among public health researchers and the dangers that that poses to our COVID-19 response, is called “The Pandemic Experts Are Not Okay.”
The nation’s fumbling response to the pandemic means we need public health workers more than ever, and the pernicious defunding and devaluing of their work over time is resulting in grave consequences for America.
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Jeannie Yandel
Special Projects Editor
Jeannie Yandel is a special projects editor focusing on podcasts and broadcast shows. She created and co-hosted the KUOW podcast Battle Tactics For Your Sexist Workplace and ran and edited KUOW's podcast about local curiosity, SoundQs. She also co-created and co-hosted KUOW's YouTube interview series, Are We Going To Be OK?. Previously, she was senior producer for The Conversation and KUOW Presents, and was Executive Producer for The Record.
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