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

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