Description: I'm Betsy Ladyzhets, an independent science, health, and data journalist and content writer, focused on COVID-19 and the future of public health. I'm co-editor of The Sick Times, a new nonprofit publication chronicling the Long Covid crisis, which I co-founded after more than three years of writing the COVID-19 Data Dispatch, a newsletter and blog that…
I’m Betsy Ladyzhets , an independent science, health, and data journalist focused on COVID-19 and the future of public health. I run the COVID-19 Data Dispatch , a publication that provides news, resources, and original reporting on COVID-19 data. I’m also a part-time journalism fellow at MuckRock working on COVID-related investigations, and a part-time community manager for an upcoming initiative at the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing .
Previously, I worked as a data journalist at Stacker and volunteered for the COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic . My freelance work has appeared in Science News , The Atlantic , STAT News , FiveThirtyEight , MIT Technology Review , TIME.com, and other national publications, as well as Gothamist/WNYC locally.
The NIH has poured $1 billion into long Covid research — with little to show for it Types: Best , Data journalism , Documenting COVID-19 , science writing The federal government has burned through more than $1 billion to study Long COVID, and there’s basically nothing to show for it. This investigation from STAT News and MuckRock explores the National Institute of Health’s failed RECOVER initiative.