Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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Carlos Becerra / Getty Venezuela’s Coronavirus Crisis Is Different
The pandemic has hit the developed world hard. How will it affect countries with fewer resources?
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Illustration: Najeebah Al-Ghadban; Celestina Vaterra / Süddeutsche Zeitung … Why Some of Us Thrive in a Crisis
For the lonely and misanthropic, these times bring surprising solidarity.
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Natalia Ramos The Worst Situation Imaginable for Family Violence
All over the United States, adults and children have been quarantined for weeks with people who hurt them.
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The Atlantic You’ll Probably Never Know If You Had the Coronavirus in January
So far, all available evidence suggests that few Americans were infected in the first weeks of the year. It would be next to impossible to find out who they were.
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Mindy Tucker Sarah Cooper Has Mastered the Trump Joke
The comedian had used TikTok only a handful of times before her impersonation of the president garnered 15 million views. Now it’s making her rethink her routine.
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Michael Loccisano / Getty The Dumbing Down of the American Restaurant
Tom Colicchio, the celebrity chef, thinks 50 percent of restaurants may not survive the pandemic, and that they’re going to have to change.
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Chandan Khanna / AFP / Getty I Just Flew. It Was Worse Than I Thought It Would Be.
The surreal experience of flying during a pandemic, and the false promise of a return to normal
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Jeff Roberson / AP Their States Are in Crisis. They’re Declaring Victory Anyway.
For the Republican governors reopening their economies, “bad news may be around the corner.”
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Michael Nagle / Redux A Guide to Staying Safe as States Reopen
Can I eat at a restaurant? Can I go shopping? Can I hug my friends again? Experts weigh in.
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Scott Olson / Getty A Socially Distanced Graduation
Graduating students of Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School received their diplomas in a nearly empty auditorium yesterday.
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Listen: Don’t Worry About a ‘New Strain’
At least not yet.
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Taylor Hill/Getty Rural Southerners Take On the Coronavirus
Many Black Belt communities lack hospitals, beds, ventilators, and tests.
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MPI / Getty Pandemics Leave Us Forever Altered
What history can tell us about the long-term effects of the coronavirus
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Adam Parata I Was Depressed Before All of This. Now What?
Even in my 6,000-person town, sadness about the pandemic is everywhere. It’s been hard to cope.
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Mike Blake / Reuters / The Atlantic Listen: High Risk
What it’s like to live through the pandemic with a cancer diagnosis
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Courtesy of Kathleen Moore / The Atlantic My Husband Would Not Survive a Triage Decision
I teach philosophy, and I would have argued against his care in theory.
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Spencer Platt / Getty Trump Turned the Death Count Into a Story About Himself
Official figures exclude thousands who have died during the pandemic. To draw the right lessons, the U.S. needs an accurate tally of the victims.
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Najeebah Al-Ghadban The Tensions Underlying Pakistan’s Ramadan Decision
The country has exempted Ramadan gatherings from its lockdown, illustrating the temptation, and the risks, of coming together.
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Listen: So the Economy Is a Disaster
And it’s probably going to get worse.
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Drew Angerer / Getty How Congress Can Help the States
The key is to establish three separate categories of problems to be addressed by three distinct forms of aid.
