Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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Getty / The Atlantic The Brazil Variant Is Exposing the World’s Vulnerability
Somehow the coronavirus is rampaging through a city that was supposedly immune.
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AP / Alvaro Barrientos / The Atlantic Podcast: Have We Turned the Corner?
Or is it still risky to be optimistic?
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Getty / The Atlantic COVID-19 Deaths Are Still Rising
Hospitalizations are falling, but they are still higher than at any point before this current surge.
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Valerie Chiang The Pandemic Has Erased Entire Categories of Friendship
There’s a reason you miss the people you didn’t even know that well.
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Robert Nickelsberg / Getty Hospitalizations Are Down
And the seven-day average of COVID-19 cases has dropped significantly too.
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Hannah Yoon / The New York Times / … The Pandemic Is Finally Softening. Will That Last?
With vaccination racing the spread of COVID-19 variants, America could be at a tipping point.
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AP / Rogelio V. Solis / The Atlantic Podcast: Who Gets the Next Shot?
A bioethics expert on the moral questions facing our vaccine rollouts.
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REUTERS/Flavio Lo Sc Why Kids Might Be Key to Reaching Herd Immunity
Children rarely get very ill from COVID-19. But there’s another reason to vaccinate them.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic A Tragic Beginning to a Presidency
On the eve of Biden’s inauguration, the pandemic’s toll has reached nearly 24 million cases and 400,000 deaths.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic America’s Most Reliable Pandemic Data Are Now at Risk
The Biden administration has to make a choice: Should it undo a vital system that Trump’s health department created?
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Simoul Alva A Troubling New Pattern Among the Coronavirus Variants
The most concerning versions of the virus are not simply mutating—they’re mutating in similar ways.
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NIAID / The Atlantic Listen: Coronavirus Mutations
How bad are the new COVID-19 variants, really?
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Coronavirus Is Evolving Before Our Eyes
The virus is mutating as expected. We can still stop it.
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San Francisco Chronicle / Getty / The Atlantic The Worst Week for Deaths Since the Pandemic Began
States reported 23,259 COVID-19 deaths this week, and the number of people hospitalized with the disease is still rising.
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Scott Olson / Getty We Don’t Know How Many People Have Recovered From COVID-19
Recovery has no standard definition, and some states, including California and Florida, do not report such data at all.
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Hannah R. Anderson Yes, the Pandemic Is Ruining Your Body
Quarantine is turning you into a stiff, hunched-over, itchy, sore, headachy husk.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Random People Are Lining Up to Get Vaccinated in D.C. Grocery Stores
Pharmacies have started quietly offering leftover COVID-19 shots to anyone around. You can guess where this goes.
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Vincent Catala / Agence VU / Redux Why Aren’t We Wearing Better Masks?
Cloth masks are better than nothing, but they were supposed to be a stopgap measure.
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AP / Jacquelyn Martin / The Atlantic Listen: How Badly Is Vaccination Going?
We’re behind, but that may change quickly.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Next Phase of Vaccination Will Be Even Harder
Getting vaccines to hospitals and nursing homes was supposed to be the easy part.
