I CONTAIN MULTITUDES author and Atlantic writer Ed Yong is the winner of the 73rd annual George Polk Awards in Science Reporting. Yong was awarded for “his clear and insightful analysis of factors behind the spread of Covid-19 and failed efforts to bring it under control. Yong’s March 25 account, ‘How the Pandemic Will End,’ correctly predicted its inordinately severe impact in the U.S., a circumstance his August 4 story, ‘How the Pandemic Defeated America,’ explained in devastating detail." Ecco Press published I CONTAIN MULTITUDES on August 1, 2016.