Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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Franco Origlia / Getty / Aleksei Isachenko / … Is It Ethically Okay to Get Food Delivered Right Now?
A guide to this and other pandemic food dilemmas
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Bettmann / Getty The People Who Risked Death for Immunity
When yellow fever swept through 19th-century New Orleans, immunity became so valuable, people were willing to go to extreme lengths for protection.
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Pablo Rochat The Boomerang Exes of Quarantine
Sometimes social distance can lead to unexpected contact.
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Jonathan Ernst/Reuters The WHO Shouldn’t Be a Plaything for Great Powers
Trump’s defunding ploy will only make the organization’s problems worse.
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Library of Congress / Paul Spella / The … Zoom Congress Is Perfectly Constitutional
A belief seems to persist among some on Capitol Hill that the Constitution requires members’ physical presence to do the nation’s business. This is false.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic After Social Distancing, a Strange Purgatory Awaits
Life right now feels very odd. And it will feel odd for months—and even years—to come.
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Richard Baker / In Pictures / Getty The Paycheck Protection Program Is Failing
Small businesses such as ours won’t survive without a lot more help.
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The Atlantic An Unprecedented Divide Between Red and Blue America
The pandemic could exacerbate a major Trump-reelection vulnerability: his weakness with urban and suburban voters.
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Walter Sanders / The LIFE Picture Collection via … I Can’t Stop Thinking About Patient One
Italy shows us that controlling the pandemic will require reshaping family life in much of the world.
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Listen: Are These Tweets Real?
McKay Coppins discusses pandemic-era propaganda on the podcast with Katherine Wells and James Hamblin.
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Listen: Watching the Pandemic Hit From Abroad
An Irish immigrant shares her perspective on America’s response to COVID-19.
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Master Sgt. Michael Davis / DVIDS Vermont’s Great Experiment
A few weeks ago, National Guardsmen in the state got an impossible assignment. And then they pulled it off.
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Leah Mills / Reuters The WHO Defunding Move Isn’t What It Seems
Trump is yet again attempting to distract the public from his own failures.
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oleskalashnik / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Trump’s Backwards Federalism Could Actually Work
Even if the president can’t mandate the states to reopen their economies, he can still do plenty to force that outcome.
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Hannah Whitaker The Pre-pandemic Universe Was the Fiction
What the coronavirus outbreak reveals is not the unreality of our present moment, but the illusions it shatters.
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Alicia Tatone How the Coronavirus Could Create a New Working Class
Experts predict the outbreak will lead to a rise in populism. But will workers turn their rage toward corporate CEOs, or middle-class “elites”?
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Kristen Radtke What’s Your Most Important Memory of Touch?
Amid a pandemic that is profoundly decreasing skin-on-skin contact, the author asked people to share their most affecting tactile experiences.
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Getty / The Atlantic Unlicensed Haircuts Are Only the Beginning
Amid a pandemic, states are cutting back the red tape that kept health-care workers out.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty / The Atlantic The Supreme Court Should Never Go Back to Its Pre-coronavirus Ways
The Court’s decision to make oral arguments more accessible and transparent is unprecedented—and should be the norm even after the pandemic.
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Adam Maida False Prophet
Media-bashing robocalls, chloroquine Twitter trolls, briefing-room propaganda—how the president and his allies are trying to convince America he was right all along.
