Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP / The Atlantic Listen: The Tree Army
Senator Chris Coons discusses a Civilian Conservation Corps for the pandemic era.
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Millennium Images / Gallery Stock We Need to Talk About Ventilation
How is it that six months into a respiratory pandemic, we are still doing so little to mitigate airborne transmission?
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Horst Friedrichs / Anzenberger / Redux Will Kids Follow the New Pandemic Rules at School?
Students are generally capable of doing what public-health experts ask, but not all of them, not everything, and not all the time.
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The Atlantic Why Can’t We Just Have Class Outside?
It might be the answer to America’s school-reopening problem.
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Jerome Labouyrie / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Listen: ‘The Most Magical Place on Earth’
Inside the quasi-authoritarian city-state in Florida where people are happily complying with the rules
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters / The Atlantic Listen: How Immunity Works
Zombies, villagers, and Navy SEALs. An immunologist explains the immune system.
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The Atlantic The Pandemic Is Putting Marriage Even Further Out of Reach
Married life is already the purview of the privileged. The economic crisis will only make things worse.
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The Atlantic The Declining Power of the American Passport
U.S. citizens are finally confronting the randomness that travel and immigration are built on.
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The Atlantic A Vaccine Reality Check
So much hope is riding on a breakthrough, but a vaccine is only the beginning of the end.
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Wenjia Tang 20 Years of Friendship With the Woman Across the Hall
“I used to joke and say, ‘If I died in my apartment, I knew that Barbara was the person who would find me.’”
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Listen: $600 a Week
A fiscal cliff is coming.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic ‘We’re Talking About More Than Half a Million People Missing From the U.S. Population’
The pandemic is disrupting birth, death, and immigration rates, and the U.S. population could reach its lowest growth rate in 100 years.
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Julian Montague Paging Dr. Hamblin: Is a Bandanna a Mask?
The value of face coverings varies wildly. Much of it comes down to how we use and maintain them.
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Elijah Nouvelage / Getty What My Kids Learned When They Weren’t in School
This time since school was canceled—since life was canceled—has given them an education they couldn’t have gotten any other way.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Listen: A New Definition of ‘Clean’
The upsides and downsides of sterilizing ourselves
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Alex Majoli / Magnum The Coronavirus Exposed the West’s Weakest Link
Italy rallied after being hit hard by the pandemic. But it is not out of the woods.
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Mark Harris There Is So Much More Than the Nuclear Family, Even Now
The narrative of family as the most legitimate form of care during the pandemic can make it hard to see all the creative ways people are showing up for one another.
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Shutterstock / Pavel Metluk / The Atlantic Listen: CDC Data Go Dark
The White House mandated that hospitals stop sending data to the CDC. Why?
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Listen: Is It Safe to Fly?
How to assess risk when you have to travel
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Reuters / Susana Vera / The Atlantic Listen: Our Deadliest Pandemic Mistake
How did it get so bad in nursing homes? And how do we protect them?
