As is her wont, New York Times reporter SHERI FINK went directly to the heart of the coronavirus story, chronicling the deadly virus that has ravaged lives and economies around the world. Her reporting from West Africa during the Ebola crisis (for which she and her New York Times colleagues won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize) and her extraordinary book, Five Days at Memorial, about a hospital in post-Katrina New Orleans, remind us why the best kind of firsthand reporting is truly an essential public service. Over the past year, as COVID-19 swept the globe, Fink reported from more than two dozen hospitals around the country and outside of it, highlighting the impacted families—their lives, their losses, and the unequal effect of the pandemic. Currently at work on a book called Surge, she will share with us what she saw, how you earn people’s trust, and what it takes to be a reporter on the front lines of a global epidemic.

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