Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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Jose Luis Pelaez / Getty Put On a Hat, Please
I’m just a kindly winter evangelist, standing in front of your outdoor restaurant table, asking you to wear layers.
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Go Nakamura / Getty The Pandemic Metric to Trust Right Now
Death and case counts are unreliable during the holidays, but hospitalizations are hitting new records in the South and West.
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John Moore / Getty The Mutated Virus Is a Ticking Time Bomb
There is much we don’t know about the new COVID-19 variant—but everything we know so far suggests a huge danger.
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Getty / Paul Spella / The Atlantic America Has Not Fixed Its Deadliest Pandemic Errors
The COVID Tracking Project’s extensive, daily data collection reveals the simple yet devastating ways the U.S. has failed.
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PATRICK T. FALLON / AFP / Getty The Winter Surge Is Fracturing
Hospitalizations are down across the Midwest, but a handful of states are showing worrisome signs.
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Joan Wong Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us
As vaccines roll out, the U.S. will face a choice about what to learn and what to forget.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Pandemic Is Crashing Through the South and the West
Five states—Arizona, California, Florida, Tennessee, and Texas—account for 40 percent of all new cases reported in the past seven days.
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Ian Waldie / Getty A Pandemic Pregnancy Is a More Dangerous Pregnancy
Even for those who haven’t contracted COVID-19
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Go Nakamura / Getty December Is Now the Deadliest Month of the Pandemic
With days left to go in the month, the number of deaths reported passed April’s high.
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MADS CLAUS RASMUSSEN / Getty The Mink Pandemic Is No Joke
Nine countries have now reported outbreaks on mink farms.
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Apu Gomes / AFP / Getty California Has Lost Control
The Golden State was in better shape than most of the country. Now the outbreak there is going from bad to worse.
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Peter Cade / Getty The Mysterious Link Between COVID-19 and Sleep
The coronavirus can cause insomnia and long-term changes in our nervous systems. But sleep could also be a key to ending the pandemic.
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Craig F. Walker / Reuters What the Vaccine’s Side Effects Feel Like
The COVID-19 vaccine will make some people feel sick. But they’re not—that’s the immune system doing its job.
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AP / Frank Augstein / The Atlantic Podcast: The Vaccine Is Here! What Now?
We’re very relieved, but now entering the strange time of vaccine purgatory.
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Micah Green / Getty / Katie Martin / … A Day of Deaths 25 Percent Higher Than Spring’s Worst
For the second week in a row, more COVID-19 deaths were reported in the U.S. than at any other time in the pandemic.
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WILLIAM WIDMER / The New York Times / … The Terrible Déjà Vu of COVID-19’s Winter Surge
The coronavirus is now resurgent in some of the states hardest hit in the spring and summer.
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Sipa USA via AP / The Atlantic Listen: Americans Are Going Hungry
How could we let people go so long without help?
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic The Next 6 Months Will Be Vaccine Purgatory
The period after a vaccine is approved will be strange and confusing, as certain groups of people get vaccinated but others have to wait.
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Joe Raedle / Getty The Vaccine Is Here. Now for the Hard Part.
An FDA-advisory-committee vote has marked the beginning of the end of the pandemic. But there’s still a long road ahead.
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Go Nakamura / Getty One Day, 3,000 Deaths
The pandemic set a devastating record today. It will not be the last.
