Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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Getty / Adam Maida / The Atlantic What If This Was the Last Year Your Loved One Was Lucid?
Dementia patients have deteriorated in social isolation. They’ve been robbed of both their health and some of their last clear memories with family members.
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Eloisa Lopez / Reuters Studying Bats With ‘Virus Hunters’ in the Philippines
A Reuters photographer recently spent time with researchers who call themselves the “virus hunters,” as they caught and studied bats in the Philippines.
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Getty / The Atlantic America Is Now in the Hands of the Vaccine-Hesitant
A subset of Americans haven’t yet made up their mind about getting a COVID-19 shot. Whether they turn out in the coming weeks will determine the future of the pandemic.
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Micah Green / Bloomberg / Getty Don’t Be Surprised When Vaccinated People Get Infected
Post-immunization cases, sometimes called “breakthroughs,” are very rare and very expected.
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ANGELA WEISS / AFP / Getty The Clearest Sign the Pandemic Could Get Worse
Another coronavirus outbreak is unfolding in Michigan.
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Sebastian Gollnow / Uwe Anspach / picture alliance … 3 Ways the Pandemic Has Made the World Better
COVID-19 has inflicted devastating losses. It has also delivered certain blessings.
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Jean Gaumy / Magnum The Coming Nostalgia for Hyper-Nesting
Our pandemic cocoons are breaking open, and some of us might miss them.
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Wikimedia / The Atlantic You’re Not Fully Vaccinated the Day of Your Last Dose
Patience, grasshopper.
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NIAID / The Atlantic Why the Pandemic Experts Failed
We’re still thinking about pandemic data in the wrong ways.
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Paco Freire / SOPA / LightRocket / Getty I Want to Look Damn Good When the World Sees Me Again
Life is coming back, and Americans are working out to get ready for it.
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Leonid Keller There Is No One Pandemic Anniversary
There are millions of them.
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Getty / Adam Maida / The Atlantic People Are Keeping Their Vaccines Secret
COVID-19 vaccinations have become a public spectacle, but they touch intensely private questions.
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Jonno Rattman Unlocking the Mysteries of Long COVID
A growing number of clinicians are on an urgent quest to find treatments for a frighteningly pervasive problem. They’ve had surprising early success.
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Al Seib / Los Angeles Times / Getty … The Pandemic’s Future Hangs in Suspense
A new surge has not yet shown up in the case numbers, but cases could be declining at a slower rate.
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Craig F. Walker / The Boston Globe / … Massachusetts Actually Might Have a Way to Keep Schools Open
An ambitious pilot program could finally pave the way to in-person learning—at least for those who can afford it.
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Patrick T. FALLON / AFP / Getty The False Dilemma of Post-Vaccination Risk
We’ll never know for sure how contagious people are after they’re vaccinated, but we do know how they should act.
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Charles Krupa / AP / The Atlantic Podcast: Infections, Vaccinations, and Other Questions
James Hamblin answers questions from callers with mild COVID-19 cases.
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Adam Maida / Getty / The Atlantic You Got the Vaccine! What Can You Do Now?
A guide to America’s awkward, semi-vaccinated months
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Photograph by Sasha Arutyunova Where Are the Iconic COVID-19 Images?
The scarcity of memorable pandemic photographs reveals something about this crisis.
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Adam Maida / Getty / The Atlantic Coronavirus Reinfection Will Soon Become Our Reality
The virus can take many paths to reinvading a person’s body. Most of them shouldn’t scare us.
