Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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Getty / The Atlantic Don’t Expect Trump’s Diagnosis to Change the Minds of Pandemic Skeptics
Experts say the president’s illness is unlikely to sway those who think COVID-19 is no big deal.
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Scott Olson / Getty / The Atlantic Biden’s Negative Test Result Isn’t Enough to Say He’s in the Clear
Trump could have infected him. We won’t know with certainty for another week.
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Anna Moneymaker / Getty The Probable Outcomes of Trump’s Diagnosis
Here’s what is currently known about Trump’s health, and what it means for everyone else.
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Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Now What?
The president’s COVID-19 diagnosis raises a number of questions about when the president was infected and how many other people in the White House might be sick.
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Moises Saman / Magnum Mothers’ Careers Are at Extraordinary Risk Right Now
The conditions of teleworking combined with increased child-care demands are a perfect storm for bias against working mothers.
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Mark J. Rebilas / Reuters / The Atlantic Listen: College Football Needs to Follow Science, Not Money
As colleges send athletes back on the field, we’re learning more about how COVID-19 could have serious and long-lasting impacts on hearts in even the healthiest among us.
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Sakis Mitrolidis / AFP / Getty This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic
It’s not R.
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Julian Montague Paging Dr. Hamblin: I Can’t Bike Alone. Is It Safe to Ride With a Friend?
Tandem cycling is one of the few ways I can get outside, but I’m worried about doing it in a pandemic.
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Maggie West I Took the Risk of Dating During the Pandemic. It Paid Off.
If I were a perfect social-distancer, I would have stayed home. But I wouldn’t have Sam.
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Getty / The Atlantic Vaccine Chaos Is Looming
The COVID-19 vaccines furthest along in clinical trials are the fastest to make, but they are also the hardest to deploy.
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Gleb Garanich / Reuters / The Atlantic Listen: How Bad Will Winter Get?
Your cold-month questions, answered
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Mandel Ngan / Getty Fauci to a Meddling HHS Official: ‘Take a Hike’
The nation’s top public-health expert addresses political interference in the COVID-19 response, but urges Americans to focus on the winter ahead.
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DeAgostini / Getty The Core Lesson of the COVID-19 Heart Debate
The new coronavirus seems so strange because it has our full attention in a way most viruses don’t.
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IvanC7 / Shutterstock / The Atlantic How Boomer Parenting Fueled Millennial Burnout
Anne Helen Petersen, the author of the new book Can’t Even, traces some of a generation’s malaise back to its upbringing.
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Moises Saman / Magnum How We Survive the Winter
The coming months of the pandemic could be catastrophic. The U.S. still has ways to prepare.
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Josh Edelson / AFP / Getty / The … Listen: Fires Outside, Virus Inside
How wildfires make the virus more dangerous
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GUEORGUI PINKHASSOV / MAGNUM There Won’t Be a Clear End to the Pandemic
The collective sense of closure we’re all longing for may never arrive. Instead, brace for a slow fade into a new normal.
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Phil Noble / Reuters / The Atlantic Listen: Is Faster Better?
We want vaccines. We want rapid tests. But when is fast too fast?
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RyanJLane / Getty Grandparents Could Ease the Burden of Homeschooling
It’s a win-win: Elders get a way to combat loneliness, teachers and parents get help they desperately need, and children get another grown-up to guide them through remote learning.
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Yulia Reznikov / Getty / COVID Tracking Project … The Fog of the Pandemic Is Returning
Millions of coronavirus tests may be happening without their results being made public.
