Stories by Youyou Zhou

Youyou Zhou is a New York-based data journalist working with graphics and code. She produces data-driven, visual, interactive and experimental journalism that breaks free of word-based formats. Follow her on Twitter @zhoyoyo

InequalityApril 1, 2022

Colonialism Casts a Shadow on Fossil Science

Paleontologists from a small number of countries control much of the world’s fossil data

Clara Moskowitz, Youyou Zhou

Public HealthJanuary 13, 2021

COVID Is on Track to Become the U.S.’s Leading Cause of Death—Yet Again

This winter the novel coronavirus may kill more people than heart disease, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer’s or diabetes

Youyou Zhou, Gary Stix

Chart shows deaths per week, broken down by cause of death. For two weeks in April, more Americans died from COVID-19 than any other single cause

Public HealthOctober 8, 2020

COVID-19 Is Now the Third Leading Cause of Death in the U.S.

It kills more people than the flu, contrary to Trump’s claims, and also surpasses stroke, Alzheimer’s and diabetes

Youyou Zhou, Gary Stix