Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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Tommaso Boddi/Getty The Essentials: How We’re Killing the People Who Feed Us
The industry practice of making hundreds of workers stand close together at a production line—with sharp knives and a fast line speed—endangers not only their safety, but also food safety and public health.
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Simoul Alva It’s Cool to Look Terrifying on Pandemic Instagram
Life is just four walls for many of us right now, but bizarre augmented-reality filters give us the illusion that it’s not.
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Thomas Rabsch / laif / Redux The Day the Live Concert Returns
I don’t know when it will be safe to sing arm in arm at the top of our lungs. But we will do it again, because we have to.
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Celina Pereira Good Riddance to the Handshake
A terrible custom is gone for good. Hallelujah.
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Toby Melville / Reuters / The Atlantic Listen: Will You Merge Bubbles With Me?
A guide to dating and relationships during the pandemic
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Michael Nagle / Redux Quarantine Fatigue Is Real
Instead of an all-or-nothing approach to risk prevention, Americans need a manual on how to have a life in a pandemic.
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NBC The SNL Season Finale Doesn’t Sugarcoat Pandemic Anxiety
Unlike its previous at-home episodes, last night’s show embraced the existential crisis of the moment.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Brazil’s Pandemic Is Just Beginning
The hardest-hit country in Latin America is facing a “perfect storm,” as inequality collides with COVID-19.
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Ye Aung Thu /AFP / Getty How Bats Might Have Tamed the Coronavirus
The animals have a remarkable resilience to all sorts of diseases that afflict humans.
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LOGAN CYRUS / AFP / Getty Take the Shutdown Skeptics Seriously
This is not a straightforward battle between a pro-human and a pro-economy camp.
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Sebastian Scheiner / AP The Coronavirus Generation Will Use Language Differently
Being out of school for half a year could change children’s relationship with formal expression.
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The Atlantic If Someone Shares the ‘Plandemic’ Video, How Should You Respond?
Experts provide scripts to help you push back as effectively as possible.
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Maxwell Burnstein What Happens If a ‘Big One’ Strikes During the Pandemic?
Hundreds of preexisting plans deal with individual natural-disaster scenarios. But these plans haven’t accounted for COVID-19 happening at the same time.
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TCD / Prod.DB / Alamy / The Atlantic The Melancholia Postulate
What the 2011 apocalyptic film has to say about peace of mind in the face of annihilation
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Melinda Fawver / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Listen: Where Movie Theaters Go From Here
Will summer’s big blockbuster premiere in your apartment?
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Getty / The Atlantic The World Doesn’t Yet Know Enough to Beat the Coronavirus
The urge to reopen society far outpaces scientific discovery. Ten scientists offer a plan to close the gap.
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The Atlantic There’s One Big Reason the U.S. Economy Can’t Reopen
The country faces the same problem today that it did two months ago: There are not enough tests to contain the virus.
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Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying
The pandemic has exposed the bitter terms of our racial contract, which deems certain lives of greater value than others.
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Nick Oxford / Reuters It’s the Pandemic, Stupid
The shutdowns aren’t what’s driving the worst unemployment crisis since the Great Depression.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic A Much-Hyped COVID-19 Drug Is Almost Identical to a Black-Market Cat Cure
Cat owners are resorting to China’s underground marketplace to buy antivirals for a feline coronavirus.
