Evan Blake has been a writer for the World Socialist Web Site since 2014 and began regularly covering the COVID-19 pandemic at its onset in early 2020. A former Special Education teacher, Evan helped organize opposition to the reckless school reopening policies in 2020 and 2021 and advanced the fight for a global elimination strategy to stop the pandemic once and for all.

Evan is the editor of COVID, Capitalism, and Class War, a compilation of the WSWS’ essential writings on the pandemic. He is also the coordinator of the WSWS’ Global Workers Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic, established to uncover the lies and misinformation used to justify pandemic policies which have needlessly killed millions.

Evan’s many video and written interviews with scientists and public health experts have given the world population access to knowledge and expertise usually restricted to scientific journals. He has also interviewed educators, nurses, autoworkers, Long COVID patients and others, documenting the real-world difficulties and challenges of working people in the pandemic.