Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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Piotr Malecki / Panos Pictures / Redux Social Distancing Is Not Enough
We will need a comprehensive strategy to reduce the sort of interactions that can lead to more infections.
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Alex Wong / Brian Smialowski / Getty / … The Faucis of the World
Thrusting once-anonymous health experts into leadership creates a tension when political decisions must be made.
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters / The Atlantic Listen: Is There a Vaccine Shortcut?
Researchers could deliberately expose people to the coronavirus to speed up the development of a vaccine. Is it worth it?
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Ollie Upton / Hulu What The Great Reveals About Trump’s Pandemic Denial
Hulu’s new satire may be set in 18th-century Russia, but it understands the theatrical and nearsighted politics of the current moment.
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Michael S. Williamson / The Washington Post / … America’s Next Crisis Is Already Here
State and local governments are being hit hard by the pandemic, and the consequences could be dangerous for democracy.
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Getty Prepare for the Roaring Twenties
The human desire to socialize will survive the pandemic.
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Lam Yik Fei / The New York Times … Hong Kong’s Revolutionary Anthem Is a Challenge to China
The city’s residents are forging a “sense of country,” which will serve to undermine Beijing’s notion of patriotism.
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Getty / The Atlantic ‘How Could the CDC Make That Mistake?’
The government’s disease-fighting agency is conflating viral and antibody tests, compromising a few crucial metrics that governors depend on to reopen their economies. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, and other states are doing the same.
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Diana Markosian / Magnum Pools Will Test the Limits of Social Distancing
Yes, you’ll have to stay six feet apart even when you’re in the water.
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Joan Wong America’s Patchwork Pandemic Is Fraying Even Further
The coronavirus is coursing through different parts of the U.S. in different ways, making the crisis harder to predict, control, or understand.
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Adeshola Makinde Athletes During the Pandemic Are Learning What Fans Have Always Known
As players return to empty arenas, they are discovering a basic truth: Live sports is an act of social imagination.
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BRITTAINY NEWMAN / New York Times / Redux Even a Bolder Biden Will Only Go So Far
The pandemic has expanded his ambitions—just not enough to challenge the Pentagon.
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Getty / The Atlantic Crises Are No Time for Political Unity
The leader of Britain’s Labour Party is showing what you can do when you don’t have a leader’s bully pulpit.
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Shutterstock / Reuters Listen: Am I Depressed?
Or is the world just depressing?
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Getty / The Atlantic The Nightmare That Colleges Face This Fall
University presidents are scrambling for answers on everything from on-campus housing to revenue-generating sports.
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Atlantic Records Charli XCX Captures the Weird Intimacy of Quarantine
The pop star’s daring album How I’m Feeling Now tries to make online hedonism match the real thing.
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The Atlantic Singles and Couples Are More Divided Than Ever
In quarantine, I’m living my peak singlehood while romantic cohabitators have ascended into the most heightened form of coupledom—and it’s causing tension.
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Peter Marlow / Magnum Never Go Back to the Office
The coronavirus killed corporate culture. Get used to working from home.
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NIH / Shutterstock / Paul Spella / The … Maybe Trump Isn’t Lying
The president does not seem to grasp the most basic aspects of the public-health crisis.
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Erin Scott / Reuters The Ticket: Senator Bill Cassidy
The senator from Louisiana (and doctor) describes how he sees states reopening and why he says those decisions should come from outside Washington, D.C.
