Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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Peter Nicholls / Reuters Boris Johnson Can Remake Britain Like Few Before Him
The British prime minister, released from the hospital today, needs to show he’s more than just a feel-good story.
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Alex Brandon / AP The Surgeon General Meets the Language Police
Jerome Adams acknowledged the vulnerability of people of color—but ran afoul of a powerful ideology.
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Ju Peng Xinhua / eyevine / Redux How China Deceived the WHO
U.S. senators are calling for investigations and the president is threatening to cut off funding. What happened?
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The Atlantic Some Patients Really Need the Drug That Trump Keeps Pushing
When he touts hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment, shortages endanger those of us who already take it.
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Md Meharban The Pandemic Exposes India’s Apathy Toward Migrant Workers
More than half a million people have left India’s cities since the lockdown was announced.
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Bloomberg / Getty / The Atlantic The City That Has Flattened the Coronavirus Curve
Mayor London Breed’s early and aggressive moves to contain the outbreak have made San Francisco a national model in fighting the pandemic.
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Daniel Acker / Reuters Voter Suppression by Pandemic
Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund discusses Wisconsin’s election debacle and how the coronavirus has become a new tool of voter suppression.
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Listen: We Can’t Go Back to Normal
Everyone wants to get back to the way things were. Maybe that’s the problem.
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Jo Zixuan Zhou The Exquisite Pain of Reading in Quarantine
Books, precisely because they are so demanding of our attention, might be the best antidote for the psychological toll of a socially distanced life.
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Claire McAdams / Shutterstock / The Atlantic I Got a Pandemic Puppy, and You Can Too
Seriously, share this with the person you need to persuade.
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Win McNamee/Getty With Each Briefing, Trump Is Making Us Worse People
He is draining the last reserves of decency among us at a time when we need it most.
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Max-o-matic For China, the ‘USA Virus’ Is a Geopolitical Ploy
In a new era of tinfoil-hat diplomacy, official sources are legitimizing conspiracy theories from the internet.
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Israel Vargas We Need to Stop Trying to Replicate the Life We Had
Attempting to translate your old social habits to Zoom or FaceTime is like going vegetarian and proceeding to glumly eat a diet of just tofurkey.
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Everett Collection / The Atlantic Unexpected Movie Masterpieces to Watch in Quarantine
Some were blasted by critics, some flopped at the box office, and all are ripe to attain cult-classic status.
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Hossein Fatemi / Panos Pictures / Redux How Normalcy Went From Misnomer to Safe Word
A recent uptick in Google searches for the term signals a longing for the usual state of affairs.
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AP The Books Briefing: The Leaders Who Weathered Historical Storms
Power players and unsung heroes: Your weekly guide to the best in books
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Mark Seliger / Trunk Archive Dave Grohl’s Pandemic Playlist
The Foo Fighters front man picks a song for your every quarantine mood.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Pandemic Will Cleave America in Two
Some will emerge from this crisis disrupted and shaken, but ultimately stable. Others will come out of it with much more lasting scars.
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Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times / Getty Why We’re Running Out of Masks
The United States’ secretive medical stockpile was prepped for a bombing, not a pandemic.
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Misha Friedman / Getty Hospitals Must Let Doctors and Nurses Speak Out
Nicholas Christakis says that “clamping down on people who are speaking is a kind of idiocy of the highest order.”
