Dr. Ott made her New York Times debut in the article “Monster or Machine? A Profile of the Coronavirus at 6 Months”, by Alan Burdick. You can read the full article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/health/coronavirus-profile-covid.html.
Dr. Ott was also recently profiled by the San Francisco Business Times, and that article can be found here: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2020/05/29/inspire-awards-melanie-ott-leads-research-in-covid.html.