Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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Anthony Gerace The Second Phase of Unemployment Will Be Harsher
For American workers displaced by recession, widespread public sympathy soon gives way to moralizing anger.
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Gabriel Zimmer The Coronavirus Prayer
A pandemic that won’t last forever and ever, amen
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Epics / Getty Who Has the Right to Shelter in a Small Town?
People are fleeing big cities for rural areas in an attempt to outrun COVID-19. In Marfa, Texas, that has divided the community.
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Damon Winter / The New York Times / … Orthodox Jewish Women Are Facing an Impossible Choice Right Now
Women who observe the Jewish laws of sexual purity have to immerse in a ritual pool after their period. Doing so during an outbreak is complicated—and potentially risky.
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Moviestore Collection / Entertainment Pictures / Alamy / … 22 Movies About the End of the World to Watch Now
These films aren’t all bleak—or obviously about an apocalypse. But each has timeless insights into how humans respond in times of crisis.
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Brigida Sanchez / DVIDS The Race to Build New Hospitals
The Army Corps of Engineers is converting dozens of hotels and convention centers. Can it do it fast enough?
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The Atlantic The Internet’s Titans Make a Power Grab
Facebook and other platforms insisted that they didn’t want to be “arbiters of truth.” The coronavirus changed their mind overnight.
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Ina Jang No One Is Supporting the Doctors
I have ceased to expect appropriate help from administrators, institutions, and the government itself.
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M. Scott Brauer / Redux Calling Me a Hero Only Makes You Feel Better
I work in a grocery store. All this grandiose praise rings insincere.
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Yeshiel Xinhua / eyevine / Redux Without More Tests, America Can’t Reopen
And to make matters worse, we’re testing the wrong people.
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BEATRICE DE GEA / The New York Times Fiona Apple’s Survival Guide to Isolation
Fetch the Bolt Cutters, the singer’s first album in eight years, argues that confinement can intensify one’s connection to the greater human whole.
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Listen: What Will the Summer Be Like?
The pandemic will still be far from over, but some aspects of normal life may begin to return.
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Constance Bannister Corp / Getty The New Cringeworthy
The response to the pandemic has created a collective aversion to previously innocuous behaviors and settings.
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Wenjia Tang What It’s Like to Live Next Door to Your Best Friend Right Now
“We don’t have this superficial friendship where I’m only best friends with you when things are funny and happy … I’m also here for all the transitions and all the rough patches.”
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Olivia Arthur / Redux Pictures Why Boredom Affects Us So Much
If being isolated at home is starting to feel like your own personal prison, it’s because tedium is also used as a severe form of carceral punishment.
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John Dominis / Getty The Supermarket After the Pandemic
The coronavirus will change grocery stores, and probably not for the better.
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Alicia Tatone Look Out, Corruption Ahead
As the country mobilizes resources to address the pandemic, politicians and corporations may attempt to exploit the crisis to enrich themselves.
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Liz Marie Sanders The Unenviable Position of a Southern Mayor
As the COVID-19 crisis shifts south, Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott is navigating a whole different sort of city-state politics.
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Adam Maida A New Statistic Reveals Why America’s COVID-19 Numbers Are Flat
Few figures tell you anything useful about how the coronavirus has spread through the U.S. Here’s one that does.
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Drew Angerer / Getty America’s COVID-19 Disaster Is a Setback for Democracy
If the country’s institutions cannot function effectively during a crisis, and especially if a view takes hold that authoritarian regimes are managing the crisis more decisively, a grim future lies ahead.
