Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP / GETTY Think 168,000 Ventilators Is Too Few? Try Three.
The coronavirus has been slow to spread across Africa. But a wave may soon hit, and health-care workers are bracing for disaster.
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H. Abernathy / ClassicStock / Getty The Easter of Empty Churches
Through plagues and wars, even through upheaval and revolution, there has never been an Easter like this one.
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CRISTINA QUICLER / AFP via Getty What Easter Can Teach Us About Suffering
The most important holiday on the Christian calendar feels foreign and unfamiliar this year.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Listen: Trump’s Miracle Cure
What do we actually know about hydroxychloroquine?
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Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP / Getty Treat It and Beat It
The federal government has a unique role to play in enabling rapid progress toward drugs to improve COVID-19 recovery and survival rates.
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Nick Oxford / Reuters The U.S. Should Just Send Checks—But Won’t
America’s obsession with keeping aid from the undeserving is making a bad economic crisis worse.
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Reuters / Lindsey Wasson People Are Remembering What Music Is Really For
Listening that revolves around headphones, singular geniuses, aesthetic subcultures, and record-industry behemoths is not what’s generating heat right now.
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Jim Vondruska / Reuters The Emergency in Florida Jails
Everyone is being ordered to practice social distancing. Except those who are being ordered into places where that’s impossible.
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BSIP / Universal Images / Getty / Paul … The Best Hopes for a Coronavirus Drug
If there is a way to stop COVID-19, it will be by blocking its proteins from hijacking, suppressing, and evading humans’ cellular machinery.
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Rose Wong 12 Free Things to Watch, Listen to, and Learn in Quarantine
Our culture writers’ top picks for how to stay entertained—without a streaming subscription
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Piero Cruciatti / AFP / Getty An Unimaginable Toll
A collection of recent images from around the world, reflecting the huge global death toll amid the coronavirus pandemic
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Scott Olson / Getty We Can’t Rely on Just the Military
It might seem like the Pentagon can act as some sort of savior in confronting the coronavirus, but that’s unlikely.
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Bettman / Getty We’re Not ‘All in It Together’
But we could be, if we rise to the moment.
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Jonas Bendiksen / Magnum It’s Okay to Be a Different Kind of Parent During the Pandemic
When something outside your control changes your life, it’s what you do with what you can control that really shapes your children.
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Morry Gash / AP / Bloomberg / Getty … The Supreme Court Has Chosen Reckless Partisanship
The conservative majority asked citizens in Wisconsin to risk their lives in order to vote—to the benefit of the Republican Party.
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Calum Heath What Happens When a Joke Is Followed by Silence
Usually, that’s bad. The pandemic makes it normal.
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Listen: You’re Doing Great
Lori Gottlieb of “Dear Therapist” gives advice on how to care for yourself during the pandemic.
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KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI / AFP / GETTY The Supreme Court’s Wisconsin Decision Is a Terrible Sign for November
The justices are forcing citizens to choose between voting and staying safe from the coronavirus. This fall’s election could be no different.
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Justin Sullivan / Getty We’re Replicating the Mistakes of 2008
As the government rushes to aid the economy, how that’s done, who benefits, and who is left behind matter. So far, the signs are ominous.
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Matt Dunham / AP Keep the Parks Open
Public green spaces are good for the immune system and the mind—and they can be rationed to allow for social distancing.
