Since the outbreak of the coronavirus in China, I (or my work) have been featured on various local and national media outlets, along with the reporting on this blog. A list is available below. For media inquiries, fill out the contact form on this blog or contact me via Facebook or Twitter.
TV
Vermont students in China monitored for coronavirus – WCAX, January 28, 2020
As Coronavirus Spreads, New England Schools Put Programs in China on Hold — NBC 10 Boston, January 29, 2020
You Can Quote Me — WCAX, February 2, 2020
Vermont colleges to charge same tuition for online and in-person classes — WCAX, August 3, 2020
Meet the College Senior Who Built a COVID Tracker After CDC Blocked from Tracing Trump’s Contacts — Democracy Now, October 6, 2020
Vermont student helps create White House COVID-19 tracker — NBC5 Vermont, October 7, 2020
Unprecedented Times — Documentary film directed by Dan Levesque — October 23, 2020
What the new CDC guidelines could mean for Marion County Schools and other districts — News 9 Chattanooga, February 12, 2021 (video here)
Vanderbilt doctor explains why vaccination rate is dropping — News 9 Chattanooga, May 8, 2021
Audio
As Coronavirus Spreads, U.S. Students In China Scramble To Leave — NPR, January 31, 2020
China, Coronavirus and Coming Home: One Middlebury Student’s Story — Vermont Public Radio (VPR), February 4, 2020
College during COVID — The Youth Vote — September 7, 2020
What Trump’s COVID-19 Condition Means For The Office, Campaign & Election — Vermont Public Radio (VPR), October 5, 2020
This Middlebury College Student Is Tracking The White House Outbreak From His Dorm Room — Vermont Public Radio (VPR), October 7, 2020
Has America finally dumped the Trump? — In The Know (Australia), November 9, 2020
“Final Exam” — Residential Spread, November 30, 2020
As Students Return To Vt. Campuses, Colleges Hope Health Measures Will Work Again — Vermont Public Radio, January 29, 2021
The News with Paul DiRienzo — WBAI, September 7, 2022
The KPFA Evening News (Sunday) — KPFA, October 24, 2022
The KPFA Evening News (Saturday) — August 12, 2023
Data Collection Crucial as New COVID Wave Looms — Counterpoint/WPKN, August 14, 2023
Print and Online
How the coronavirus affected Middlebury College students studying in China — Burlington Free Press, January 29, 2020
Virus forces college students out of China — Addison Independent, January 30, 2020
‘We do not want to risk our lives’: Amid coronavirus scares, colleges try to keep healthy, calm — USA Today, January 30, 2020
Middlebury student stuck in Beijing during coronavirus emergency says atmosphere is tense — Boston Globe, January 31, 2020
School in China suspended amidst coronavirus outbreak — Middlebury Campus, January 31, 2020
Rye Student Heads Home from China in Wake of Coronavirus Emergency — MyRye, February 1, 2020
USC Halts China Study Abroad, Duke Venture Idled After Virus — Bloomberg, February 4, 2020
For safety, college isolates students back from China — Addison Independent, February 6, 2020
Virus causes global health emergency — The Broadview, February 15, 2020
Rice High School students returning from Italy will be quarantined, monitored for coronavirus — Burlington Free Press, March 2, 2020
‘Devastated, disappointed and worried’: How coronavirus stole students’ study abroad — USA Today, March 12, 2020
COVID-19 coverage — Addison Independent — March 15, 2020
College, Interrupted — Open Campus — March 20, 2020
Middlebury College journalists double down — Addison Independent — March 23, 2020
Student journalists navigate coronavirus pandemic — Inside Higher Ed — March 24, 2020
Student journalism across the country goes online in the face of COVID-19 — The Carletonian — March 28, 2020
Campuses Are Closed, but Student Journalists Are Still Working — The Nation — April 1, 2020
What’s Clearer Now — Open Campus — April 3, 2020
Student journalists nationwide are innovating to cover COVID-19 — The Scarlet and Black — April 30, 2020
College will reopen this fall, cautiously — Addison Independent — June 25, 2020
Will Colleges Reopen This Fall? Schools Try to Keep Campuses Safe — Bloomberg — July 10, 2020
Liberal arts colleges look to fall 2020 — Bryan Alexander — July 12, 2020
What Students Have to Say about the Fall — Open Campus — July 17, 2020
‘Incredibly Heartbreaking’: No Division III sports at CC this fall — CC COVID-19 Reporting Project — July 21, 2020
What are the criteria for flipping a fall semester into a Toggle Term? — Bryan Alexander — August 6, 2020
First-years and juniors may not return to campus, as U. switches to entirely remote fall — The Daily Princetonian — August 7, 2020
Markedly heterogeneous COVID-19 testing plans among US colleges and universities — MedRxiv, August 11, 2020
August Wave of Campus Reopening Reversals — Inside Higher Ed — August 12, 2020
Chaotic and incoherent: Damning study of over 500 U.S. campus COVID-19 reopening plans — News Medical, August 13, 2020
Middlebury group calls on college to go online-only; college stands firm — VTDigger, August 14, 2020
College confident about COVID testing plan — Addison Independent, August 17, 2020
Vermont Colleges Laid Testing Plans to Restart Safely. Will They Work? — Seven Days, August 19, 2020
On the College’s plan for the fall: A note of thanks and a call for answers — Williams Record — August 19, 2020
‘Ready to Adapt’: Campus fitness center reopens with reservation system and split schedule — CC COVID-19 Reporting Project, August 21, 2020
A Backlash to Banning — Open Campus, August 28, 2020
New Database Tracks Reversals in Colleges’ Fall Reopening Plans — Inside Higher Ed, August 31, 2020
Seven Thoughts from the Fall Semester — Robert Kelchen, September 4, 2020
Three different units for COVID-19 tests — COVID-19 Data Dispatch — September 6, 2020
Coronavirus: ‘The question is whether colleges can bring them under control’ — Yahoo Finance, September 8, 2020
A Tool to Inform Too Often Confuses — Chronicle of Higher Education, September 18, 2020
Our relationship with wildfires — Axios Today — September 18, 2020
Coronavirus: The Pandemic and Higher Education — The Mac Weekly — September 18, 2020
#3 *Is* this Paris? — Catfish Honey — October 1, 2020
The White House Is Failing To Contact Trace Its Own Outbreak: Report — New York Magazine, October 4, 2020
Confusion Over Trump’s Condition in Hospital: Live Updates — New York Magazine, October 4, 2020
Who has COVID-19? This White House case tracker and live dashboard will tell you — Fast Company, October 5, 2020
Tracking The White House Covid-19 Coronavirus Outbreak Needs To Be More Open — Forbes, October 5, 2020
Coronavirus Roundup: White House Blocks Vaccine Guidelines; Cuomo Stymies NYC Lockdown — The River Newsroom, October 5, 2020
A Middlebury Student Is Tracking the White House COVID-19 Outbreak — Seven Days, October 7, 2020
“Super-Spreader” Trump Wants to Return to Oval Office Despite Being Contagious — Truthout, October 7, 2020
Great grafs included — Student Journalism, Nationwide, October 9, 2020
Supercontagiador en jefe: Donald Trump pone en peligro al personal de la Casa Blanca — Democracy Now, October 9, 2020
In Other Ivory Towers: Middlebury removes 22 students for violating COVID-19 guidelines — The Williams Record, October 12, 2020
Benjy Renton ’21 garners national recognition for contact tracing the White House — The Middlebury Campus, October 15, 2020
Middlebury College student’s COVID work draws national attention — Addison Independent, October 22, 2020
Coronavirus Schools Briefing: Anguish in New York — The New York Times, October 28, 2020
What Counts as Success in a COVID Semester — Inside Higher Ed, November 2, 2020
College has handled the pandemic ‘very well’ — Addison Independent, November 26, 2020
Vermont colleges post some of the nation’s lowest Covid-19 numbers — VTDigger, December 6, 2020
Vaccines Are Here. We Have to Talk About Side Effects — WIRED, December 17, 2020
15 states are reporting COVID-19 vaccination data — COVID-19 Data Dispatch, December 20, 2020
The growth of “pharmacy deserts” — Axios, January 7, 2021
U.S. must take more honest shot at battling this pandemic — JD Supra, January 11, 2021
Benjy Renton ’17 chronicles his travels in China — The Dial, February 19, 2021
America is seeing a huge improvement in vaccine shipments — Yahoo News, March 1, 2021
This Guy Ordered Clorox Wipes When The Pandemic Started. They Finally Arrived 349 Days Later. — BuzzFeed News, March 5, 2021
一男子去年疫情开始时网购了四罐消毒湿巾，收货用了一年 — Gurunin.com, March 5, 2021
U.S. man’s order of disinfectant wipes arrives 349 days into the pandemic — CTV News, March 6, 2021
Des lingettes désinfectantes livrées 349 jours après la commande — Le Journal de Montréal, March 7, 2021
Reliable Sources Newsletter — CNN, March 7, 2021
The US pandemic at one year: Looking back at the week everything changed, and looking forward — CNN, March 8, 2021
The guy who’s Clorox wipes arrived a year later — Daily Mail TV, March 12, 2021
Reliable Sources Newsletter — CNN, March 14, 2021
College Senior’s Efforts to Track COVID-19 Data Leads to Internship — Ariadne Labs, April 5, 2021+17
America is about to hit a ‘vaccine wall’ as demand drops — with or without Johnson & Johnson — Yahoo News, April 15, 2021
Republicans twice as likely to be unvaccinated against Covid — Cyber Disobedience by John Aravosis, April 15, 2021
Reliable Sources Newsletter — CNN, April 16, 2021
Some Colleges Require COVID-19 Vaccination — Why Don’t They All? — NEJM Journal Watch, May 3, 2021
Reliable Sources Newsletter — CNN, May 10, 2021
Addison County leads the state in vaccination rate — The Middlebury Campus, May 20, 2021
The Deeper Dig: How a Middlebury student became a Vermont Covid-19 expert — VTDigger, May 31, 2021
Reliable Sources Newsletter — CNN, July 28, 2021
This stage of the pandemic is confusing. Here are 6 ways newsrooms can help — CNN, July 28, 2021
For a safe return to school, children must be vaccinated — The Boston Globe, July 29, 2021
Barnstable Covid-19 Outbreak: Fully Vaccinated Can Spread Coronavirus Delta Variant, Says CDC — Forbes, July 31, 2021
Don’t Cancel the Tokyo Olympics. Emulate Them — Inside Medicine, August 3, 2021
Reliable Sources Newsletter — CNN, August 15, 2021
我在明德学中文：美国小伙的疫情日记 — WeChat, August 15, 2021
Pediatric Covid-19 hospitalizations just soared past January — Inside Medicine, August 15, 2021
Reliable Sources Newsletter — CNN, August 18, 2021
Vaccine mandates work, but rollout will be a bumpy road for employers — ABC News, September 21, 2021
12 on 12: Hardships – WPRI 12 — September 28, 2021
The COVID Digest, 02Oct2021 — Amber Schmidtke, October 2, 2021
Reliable Sources Newsletter — CNN, November 8, 2021
Making COVID-19 vaccinations a family affair can protect against omicron: Analysis — ABC News, December 3, 2021
Reliable Sources Newsletter — CNN, December 21, 2021
62 US counties likely at or over 100% hospital capacity. “Circuit breakers” may be needed in those areas — Inside Medicine, December 22, 2021
‘Unsustainable’: Boston hospitals could face ‘disaster’ as coronavirus wastewater shoots up and virus cases explode — The Boston Herald, December 27, 2021
The Omicron Paradox: If it’s milder, why are hospitals on the brink of disaster? — Inside Medicine, January 5, 2022
We’re All Tired of This Pandemic—and Some of Us Are Sick — The Nation, January 6, 2022
What the latest science says about how — and when — the Omicron surge will end — Yahoo News, January 6, 2022
Hospitals are crushed once again. But there are glimmers of hope. — The Washington Post, January 6, 2022
America’s Omicron Wave Already Looks More Severe Than Europe’s — New York Magazine, January 7, 2022
Jeremy Faust on the Omicron Paradox — MedPage Today, January 10, 2022
Arizona, California, Washington, Wisconsin appear to have more hospitalized patients than beds. 24 states poised to join them. — Inside Medicine, January 13, 2022
Getting to and Sustaining the Next Normal: A Roadmap for Living with COVID — March 17, 2022
Narrowing the vaccine gap as boosters begin for people over 50 — STAT News, April 1, 2022
Different Takes: Congress Must Quit Stalling Before The Next Covid Wave; Persuading The Over 50s To Get Boosters — Kaiser Health News, April 1, 2022
Congress Leaves Those Most Endangered by Covid in the Lurch — The Nation, May 11, 2022
Excess Mortality in Massachusetts During the Delta and Omicron Waves of COVID-19 — JAMA, May 20, 2022
COVID in California: Three-quarters of Americans not up to date on vaccines — San Francisco Chronicle, July 29, 2022
BA.5 Shows COVID Is Evolving Fast. We Need to Fight Back. — New York Magazine, July 29, 2022
Uncoupling of all-cause excess mortality from COVID-19 cases in a highly vaccinated state — The Lancet Infectious Diseases, August 22, 2022
New research highlights the effectiveness of immunizations in preventing severe COVID-19 outcomes — Yale Daily News, September 6, 2022
As New Covid Boosters Move Forward, Better Outreach is Needed to Save Lives — CounterPunch, September 9, 2022
What has higher education learned from COVID-19? — Future Trends Forum, November 3, 2022
Why Are So Many Americans Dying Right Now? — The New York Times, February 2, 2023
Bivalent Boosters for Young Children Are Elusive. The Search Is On for Ways to Improve Access. — Leaps.org, March 2, 2023
Is the pandemic really over? Here’s what the data show. — The Boston Globe, May 11, 2023
西维州中国民居复建项目获赠云南瓦片 — Sinovision, May 15, 2023
A tea salon at the Chinese embassy enlightens — China Daily, May 23, 2023
小奇迹满3周岁即将回中国，民众难说再见 — Sinovision, August 21, 2023
Bittersweet: All 3 giant pandas to leave DC — China Daily, August 22, 2023
Stint in HK sparks US man’s lifelong love of China — China Daily, November 16, 2023
Does it seem like everyone you know is getting sick recently? Here’s why, and what to do about it. — Boston Globe, January 10, 2024
Four years of COVID: Fewer people are dying but the virus ‘is still with us’ — Boston Globe, March 10, 2024
Experts discuss misinformation, artificial intelligence, grassroots solutions at panel — The Brown Daily Herald, April 10, 2024
‘Insane flex’: NY mayor roasted for ‘inventing the trash can’ after rolling out ‘official NYC Bin’ — AlterNet, July 8, 2024