Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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Erin Schaff / The New York Times / … My Community Refuses to Get Vaccinated. Now Delta Is Here.
Only 35 percent of Arkansas is fully vaccinated, and with case rates rising, living there can feel like moving through a distorted reality.
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Getty; The Atlantic We’re Zeroing In On the ‘Holy Grail’ of COVID-19 Immunity
There’s no good way of measuring whether your vaccine worked—yet.
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Getty; The Atlantic Vaccination in America Might Have Only One Tragic Path Forward
COVID-19 vaccination rates have fallen off a cliff. Will it take a deadly summer surge to change things?
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Bill Greenblatt / UPI / Alamy Delta Is Driving a Wedge Through Missouri
For America as a whole, the pandemic might be fading. For some communities, this year will be worse than last.
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The Atlantic Post-vaccination Infections Come in 2 Different Flavors
Lumping all breakthroughs together, regardless of symptoms, miscasts what our COVID-19 vaccines can do.
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Hannah Beier / Reuters Doctors Are Puzzled by Heart Inflammation in the Young and Vaccinated
Weighing the balance of risks is a shade more challenging when it affects the youngest among us.
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The Atlantic Why No One Is Sure If Delta Is Deadlier
The variants are spreading faster, but they don’t necessarily have incentive to kill more often.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Dos and Don’ts of Hot Vax Summer
A vaccinated American’s guide to traveling this summer
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Alex Merto The Only Way We’ll Know When We Need COVID-19 Boosters
Research can tell us only so much. The rest is a waiting game.
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Dmitri Lovetsky / AP / The Atlantic Podcast: Is It Over?
Our pandemic podcast is ending, though the pandemic hasn’t ended around the world.
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The Atlantic The Fundamental Question of the Pandemic Is Shifting
We understand how this will end. But who bears the risk that remains?
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Alex Majoli / Magnum photos On Top of Everything Else, the Pandemic Messed With Our Morals
The traumas of the past year have left some people wrestling with an awful question: Am I still a good person?
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Kateryna Kon / Getty / Katie Martin / … Coronavirus Variants Have Nowhere to Hide
Our tests will need frequent touch-ups to make sure that no mutations get past them.
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Molly Darlington / Reuters / The Atlantic Podcast: Breakthrough Infections and Lonely Puppies
Things are starting to look up, at least in the U.S., but we’re looking ahead at potential future worries.
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Wikimedia Commons / The Atlantic Podcast: It’s Time to Tango
Lots of your questions about the future after COVID-19 get answered, and one listener gives us a little history lesson.
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Lisa Maree Williams / Getty What Breakthrough Infections Can Tell Us
Post-vaccination infections reveal how effective vaccines are—and which variants are sneaking past our defenses.
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Radoslav Zilinsky / Andriy Onufriyenko / Getty / … COVID-19 Vaccine Makers Are Looking Beyond the Spike Protein
It’s time for more weapons in the shots-versus-virus arms race.
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Alkis Konstandtinidis / Reuters / The Atlantic Podcast: Dealing With Post-pandemic Trauma
The Atlantic staff writer Ed Yong talks with James Hamblin and Maeve Higgins about the ways, large and small, in which we’ve all suffered.
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Getty / The Atlantic What Happens When Americans Can Finally Exhale
The pandemic’s mental wounds are still wide open.
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Denis Balibouse / Reuters / The Atlantic Podcast: Share the Vaccine ‘Recipe’
What difference could it make worldwide if the U.S. waived patents for vaccines?
