Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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Joan Wong Why the Coronavirus Is So Confusing
A guide to making sense of a problem that is now too big for any one person to fully comprehend
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Getty / The Atlantic You Thought You Were Free, but History Found You
The 2020 commencement speech you’ll never hear
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Getty / The Atlantic Efficiency Is Biting Back
Decades of streamlining everything made the U.S. more vulnerable.
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Sharpner / Shutterstock / The Atlantic States Are Using the Pandemic to Roll Back Americans’ Rights
Some state governments are criminalizing and censoring lawful speech under the guise of protecting public health.
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Dustin Chambers / Bloomberg / Getty The U.S. Is Now Resorting to Plan C
Americans are not going to wait for sufficient testing. So what happens next?
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Andrea Mantovani / The New York Times The ‘Terrible Moral Choice’ of Reopening
European leaders have set out plans for restarting their societies. But the choice isn’t theirs; it belongs to individual citizens.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Listen: Will the Restaurants Come Back?
What the future of your neighborhood storefront means for American cities
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Mark Kolbe / Getty Quarantine Could Change How Americans Think of Incarceration
Nationwide forced isolation, along with media coverage of the pandemic’s toll in U.S. jails and prisons, could shift public perceptions of carceral punishment.
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The Atlantic The False Hope of Antibody Tests
The immunity tests were supposed to be a “game changer,” but they are instead revealing that the majority of Americans are still vulnerable to COVID-19 infection.
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ZACHARY ZAVISLAK / TRUNK ARCHIVE Medication Shortages Are the Next Crisis
The frequency of alerts and the number of drugs in undersupply are shocking developments in a rich country.
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Getty / The Atlantic No Testing, No Treatment, No Herd Immunity, No Easy Way Out
We need to start preparing for a darker reality.
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Listen: How Much Does It Cost to Get COVID-19?
Howard Forman, a Yale professor of public health and economics, joins the podcast Social Distance to explain the economics of American health care.
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Odd Andersen / AFP / Getty Balcony Seats: Watching Movies From Apartment Buildings
Recent images of movies being shown to apartment dwellers in Germany, Colombia, Brazil, and France during coronavirus lockdowns
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Alex Stikeleather / The Atlantic Women Are Buying ‘Essential AF’ Shirts, Candles, and Wine Glasses
The strangest pandemic souvenir is Etsy merch with sassy slogans about essential workers.
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Eve Arnold / Magnum There’s No Simple Way to Reopen Universities
How do you operate institutions designed to mix people and ideas without also mixing viruses?
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Joshua Dudley Greer The Pandemic Will Change American Retail Forever
The big will get bigger as mom-and-pops perish and shopping goes virtual. In the short term, our cities will become more boring. In the long term, they might just become interesting again.
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Alex Brandon / AP Images The Implications of Trump Derangement Syndrome
Even now, vehement Trump supporters seem to believe that most criticism of the president is explained by widespread TDS.
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Matthew Horwood / Getty / The Atlantic Boris Johnson and the Optimism Delusion
The prime minister has returned to work, bringing his characteristic positivity with him. For it to succeed, he needs to back up his rhetoric with results.
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Rainier Ehrhardt / AP / Katie Martin / … A Republican Rising Star’s Plan to Reopen America
Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina is keenly aware that COVID-19 is especially dangerous for African Americans. He’s also worried about small businesses.
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Trent Parke / Magnum After the Flood Recedes
Like Frederick Douglass, we can find inspiration for this moment in the oldest story of rebirth and renewal.
