Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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Emma McIntyre / Getty / Katie Martin / … Why Not Janet?
A vice-presidential pick who could show that Joe Biden is serious about winning, and then governing
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Courtesy of Chloe Le / The Atlantic An Act of Love and Desperation
Chloe Le got a mild case of COVID-19. Her husband, Ted, ended up in the ICU. Chloe spent weeks in a race against a bottlenecked system, trying to donate her plasma to Ted and hopefully save his life.
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Roger Kisby / Redux How Cities Are Taking Advantage of the Coronavirus Shutdowns
Empty streets are allowing construction crews to complete long-needed infrastructure projects at record speed.
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PAUL RATJE / Agence France-Presse / AFP / … Masks Are a Tool, Not a Symbol
Lives will be lost if Americans allow the culture war to determine whether they cover their face in public.
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Win McNamee / Getty The President Is Unraveling
The country is witnessing the steady, uninterrupted intellectual and psychological decomposition of Donald Trump.
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Jonas Bendiksen / Magnum Being a Parent Has Made My Pandemic Life Simpler, If You Can Believe It
Hear me out.
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Simoul Alva Work From Home Is Here to Stay
The future of jobs after the pandemic is a blurry mix of work, life, pajamas, and Zoom.
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Kyle Grillot / Reuters We’re Still Living and Dying in the Slaveholders’ Republic
The pandemic has brought the latest battle in the long American war over communal well-being.
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Elena Dorfman / Redux The Small-Business Die-Off Is Here
Many small businesses won’t survive, and that will change the landscape of American commerce for years to come.
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ilbusca / Getty / The Atlantic A Citizen’s Guide to SCOTUS Live
America’s new reality show begins Monday.
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Sohrab Hura / Magnum Nuns vs. the Coronavirus
At a Catholic nursing home in Delaware, one-fifth of residents have died. The nuns who run the facility are grappling with their calling.
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Nick Levesque The Rest of the World Is Laughing at Trump
The president created a leadership vacuum. China intends to fill it.
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H. Armstrong Roberts / ClassicStock / Getty We Should All Be Preppers
Chances are you have a neighbor who was ready for this pandemic.
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Leta Seletzky We Are Losing a Generation of Civil-Rights Memories
America’s response to the pandemic harkens back to ugly times in our country’s history. But to recognize that, we need to know our elders’ stories.
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Jeff Roberson / AP Cancel Rent
Even before the pandemic, three in five renters could not come up with $400 in an emergency. How are they supposed to get by now?
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Doug Mills / The New York Times / … Trump Tries to Be Normal
And yet no week of president-watching will lack for oddities.
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Bettman / Getty Immigrants Have Always Known the Pain of Social Distancing
Native-born Americans could learn from the men and women who have started anew in a land they do not recognize.
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Lalitree Darnielle A Strangely Comforting Quarantine Album
The Mountain Goats’ latest release is authentically a product of this pandemic, but it’s also nicely indifferent to it.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic The End of the Imperial Presidency
By ceding control over the government’s pandemic response, Trump is allowing American governors to flex new muscles.
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Win McNamee / Getty / The Atlantic The Thorniest Subject at NASA Right Now
The space agency is carefully following pandemic measures. Elon Musk thinks they’re overblown. But they’re going to the moon together.
