Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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Ariana Drehsler / Getty The FDA Really Did Have to Take This Long
If vaccine approval feels maddeningly scrupulous, that’s because the alternative is worse.
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Richard Pierrin / Getty All These Simultaneous Disasters Are Messing With Our Brains
The earthquakes and wildfires and wars keep piling up. When does our empathy run out?
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Matt Chase Delta Has Changed the Pandemic Risk Calculus
If you’re confused about what you can do right now, you should be.
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Eva Marie Uzcategui / Bloomberg / Getty Why Wait 8 Months?
You could probably sneak in a COVID-19 booster shot right now. But there are a few good reasons to hold off.
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Getty ; The Atlantic The Coronavirus Is Here Forever. This Is How We Live With It.
We can’t avoid the virus for the rest of our lives, but we can minimize its impact.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Messiest Phase of the Pandemic Yet
Coronavirus data have always been incomplete—but the situation in America is particularly murky now.
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Getty / The Atlantic Vaccines Are Like Sunscreen … No, Wait, Airbags … No, Wait …
Everyone is bad at describing the vaccines, including me.
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Steve Helber / AP ; The Atlantic The Vaccine Scientist Spreading Vaccine Misinformation
Robert Malone claims to have invented mRNA technology. Why is he trying so hard to undermine its use?
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic How the Pandemic Now Ends
Cases of COVID-19 are rising fast. Vaccine uptake has plateaued. The pandemic will be over one day—but the way there is different now.
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Getty Why Is It Taking So Long to Get Vaccines for Kids?
A few things still need to happen before the shots can be authorized for Americans younger than 12.
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Ben Hasty / MediaNews Group / Getty Delta Is Bad News for Kids
More children are falling ill because more are being infected.
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Adrian Greer Michael Short / Fairfax Media / … The Vaccine Cards Are the Wrong Size
Seriously, why can I not fit this thing in my wallet?
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Ollie Millington / Getty Masks Are Back, Maybe for the Long Term
Some people can’t help but feel that masking while vaccinated is a regression—especially because this time, there’s no obvious off-ramp.
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Alec Soth / Magnum American Shoppers Are a Nightmare
Customers were this awful long before the pandemic.
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Constantine Manos / Magnum Hot Vax Summer Crumbled Before My Eyes
Over the course of one week in Provincetown, a new reality set in: Post-vaccine life wasn’t going to be as simple as it had seemed.
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David Jensen / Regent's Park Theatre / Getty Watch the U.K. to Understand Delta
The country lifted all its COVID-19 restrictions just as Delta peaked. What happens next will tell us how well vaccines are working.
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Getty ; The Atlantic ‘Why Are We Not Vaccinating Children Under 12?’
An infectious-disease doctor on what we know about the Delta variant and the risks that lie ahead.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic Your Vaccinated Immune System Is Ready for Breakthroughs
Getting COVID-19 when you’re vaccinated isn’t the same as getting COVID-19 when you’re unvaccinated.
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Bing Guan / Bloomberg / Getty 4 Reasons I’m Wearing a Mask Again
Our vaccines are extraordinary, but right now they need all the help they can get.
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Kendrick Brinson / The New York Times / … Two Ways to Think About the New Mask Debate
Depending on where you live and your risk tolerance, vaccinated people are justified in either masking or unmasking indoors.
