Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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Getty / The Atlantic The Problem With Stories About Dangerous Coronavirus Mutations
There’s no clear evidence that the pandemic virus has evolved into significantly different forms—and there probably won’t be for months.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic China’s Bargain on Global Influence Is Paying Off
The U.S. gives more money than China to many international organizations. So why do they seem more sympathetic to Beijing?
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Noam Galai / Getty We’re Discovering Our Character
The pandemic is reshaping how we understand ourselves and our world.
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Moises Saman / Magnum Photos Americans Have to Accept Uncertainty
As the chronically ill know, to be alive is to be “in uncertainty.” But American culture—and American medicine within it—largely strives to downplay this fact.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic The System That Actually Worked
How the internet kept running even as society closed down around it
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Vincent Laforet / Reuters How America Handles Catastrophe
Covering Katrina weakened my faith in the country’s preparedness. The coronavirus has robbed me of it completely.
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Ruddy Roye In a Pandemic, All Some People See Is Your Color
What COVID-19 reveals about our fraught relationships
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Elinor Carucci My Family Needed a Reset. Quarantine Gave Us One.
I can’t wait to get back to normal, but I know what I’ll be missing.
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Paul Hennessy / NurPhoto via Getty Food Banks Can’t Go On Like This
Demand is spiking. And meeting it is costlier than ever. Without more changes to federal and state food assistance, the status quo is unsustainable.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic How ‘Karen’ Became a Coronavirus Villain
A popular joke about entitled white women is now a big pandemic meme.
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Ed Jones / AFP via Getty What’s Behind South Korea’s COVID-19 Exceptionalism?
Seven weeks ago, South Korea and the U.S. had the same number of virus deaths. Today, South Korea has fewer than 300, and the U.S. has more than 70,000.
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The Atlantic Virus Experts Aren’t Getting the Message Out
If the authorities can’t satisfy the public’s desire to know more, others will fill the void with misinformation.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Pandemic Has Revealed the Weakness of Strongmen
Women leaders are a symptom of a political system’s success, not necessarily its cause.
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Soomin Jung ‘ICU Delirium’ Is Leaving COVID-19 Patients Scared and Confused
The mental toll of intensive care can be more severe than the physical one.
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Andrew Savulich / AP / The Atlantic Listen: Things Can Change in an Instant
Lessons from the front lines of the AIDS epidemic
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Bloomberg / Getty / The Atlantic To Trump, ‘Complete and Total Exoneration’ Is Always Right Around the Corner
The president and his supporters continue to fixate on the Russia investigation, perpetually expecting redemption.
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Library of Congress / The Atlantic Congress Needs to Be Way, Way Bigger
Members of the House simply cannot adequately respond to the needs of hundreds of thousands of people.
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Courtesy of Thomas Lynch Death Without Ceremony
We need time and space to grieve. The pandemic denies us this.
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Jillian Freyer Homeless in a City Buffeted by Plague
Boston’s most vulnerable citizens are experiencing a drastic reduction in places to eat, places to sit, places to use the bathroom, places to be safe, places to be.
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Caitlin Flanagan / The Atlantic I Thought Stage IV Cancer Was Bad Enough
Then came a pandemic during the presidency of Donald Trump.
