Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call / Getty Trump Brings Religion Into the Coronavirus Culture War
Religious services shouldn’t be exempted from state pandemic regulations.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Listen: The Georgia Experiment
Who does the state’s reopening serve?
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SongJoon Cho / Bloomberg / Getty I Have Seen the Future—And It’s Not the Life We Knew
Cities around the world might slowly be coming back to life, but there’s no going back to “normal.”
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Getty / The Atlantic All the Things We Have to Mourn Now
Six experts explain how to recognize the many new faces of grief during a pandemic.
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Getty / The Atlantic Should You Get an Antibody Test?
A user’s guide to the immune system
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John Moore / Getty America’s Built-in Protection Against Bad Leadership
For all its failures, the U.S. has structural advantages over rival powers—and will come out of the pandemic even stronger.
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Celina Pereira You Should Politicize the Coronavirus
The pandemic raises unavoidable and legitimate political questions. We should be suspicious of any attempt to dismiss them.
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Listen: You Are Worthy of Sleep
Even in a pandemic.
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MAGEN DAVID ADOM / AFP / GETTY Israel’s Arab Moment
In this pandemic, the nation’s citizens face a crisis that is finally bringing us together.
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Courtesy of Karissa Chen / The Atlantic How Quickly an Unfounded Fear Can Become Reasonable Caution
My grandfather spent his whole adult life separated from his parents. The fear I inherited of being cut off from my own family feels validated by the pandemic.
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moodboard / Getty / Paul Spella / The … The Coronavirus Conspiracy Boom
Nearly a third of the people we polled believe that the virus was manufactured on purpose. Why?
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Courtesy of Denise Rendor The Fragility of the Global Nurse Supply Chain
The pandemic has exposed how richer countries, including the United States, rely on health-care workers from poorer ones, such as the Philippines.
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Paras Griffin / Getty Atlanta Isn’t Ready to Reopen—And Neither Is Georgia
As the mayor of Atlanta, I’m unable to endorse the governor’s decision to reopen businesses before health experts say it’s safe to do so.
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mega pixel / shutterstock / the atlantic To Safely Reopen, Make the Workweek Shorter. Then Keep It Shorter.
This crisis is the ideal time to make radical changes to how we work in America.
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Hulton Archive / Getty / Katie Martin / … A Throwback Way to Win a Pandemic Election
COVID-19 may have forced the 2020 campaign online, but progressives are trying out an old-fashioned turnout tactic for the fall: letter-writing.
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Mike Blake / Reuters / The Atlantic Listen: Is Human Touch Necessary?
And other questions from listeners, answered
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Dustin Chambers / Bloomberg via Getty Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice
The state is about to find out how many people need to lose their lives to shore up the economy.
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The Atlantic Friends Are Breaking Up Over Social Distancing
When one friend takes prevention guidelines more seriously than the other, suspicion, fear, and shame can drive them apart.
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Erin Clark / The Boston Globe / Getty ‘We’re Literally Killing Elders Now’
Thousands of Americans in long-term-care facilities have died from COVID-19. My grandmother just became one of them.
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Culture Club / Getty / The Atlantic Disease Has Never Been Just Disease for Native Americans
Native communities’ vulnerability to epidemics is not a historical accident, but a direct result of oppressive policies and ongoing colonialism.
