My Family’s Two-Week Battle With the Covid Delta Variant

Fighting Covid taught me more than reporting on it ever could

Elad Simchayoff
Elemental
Published in
8 min readAug 6, 2021

--

My positive test result and the day our battle began

For the past year and a half, my life has been consumed by Covid. I have been covering the pandemic as a journalist, I’ve given lectures about it, read hundreds of studies, interviewed dozens of experts, and spoken to many who experienced the disease. I’ve also…

--

--

Elad Simchayoff
Elemental

I love writing about what I love. Israeli/British. Father, husband, dog person. Support me by joining Medium via this link: https://eladsi.medium.com/membership