“The Invader”
From the Nominator
“The Invader,” by Bruce Goldman, was a key element in a Stanford Medicine magazine COVID-19-themed issue: Apart Yet Together: Breaking COVID-19's Deadly Embrace. The in-depth explanatory article is intended as an engaging introduction to viruses in general, and to the virus that causes COVID-19 in particular, while highlighting Stanford Medicine's contributions to COVID-19-related research efforts. It also shows how various experimental treatments being tested in the pandemic's early days could interfere with normal viral activities—thus, it is hoped, curtailing or preventing infection and disease.
From the Judges
Somehow you managed to make something intricately medical and technical a highly readable and engaging piece. A medal is deserved purely for that feat alone.