Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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The Atlantic The Pandemic’s Legacy Is Already Clear
All of this will happen again.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty Long COVID Has Forced a Reckoning for One of Medicine’s Most Neglected Diseases
Only a couple dozen doctors specialize in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Now their knowledge could be crucial to treating millions more patients.
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Kevin Faingnaert for The Atlantic Did a Famous Doctor’s COVID Shot Make His Cancer Worse?
A lifelong promoter of vaccines suspects he might be the rare, unfortunate exception.
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Allen J. Schaben / Getty 11 COVID Questions People Still Have, Answered
What we know about Paxlovid, how to handle a positive test, and when to get a booster
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic The ‘End’ of COVID Is Still Far Worse Than We Imagined
Even now, the coronavirus is killing three times as many people as the flu.
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Santiago Felipe / Getty; The Atlantic Fauci Addresses ‘The Pandemic Is Over’
President Biden’s controversial remarks, Fauci says, are a matter of “semantics.”
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Getty Hundreds of Americans Will Die From COVID Today
Is this what normal now looks like?
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic; Getty Should Your Flu and COVID Shots Go in Different Arms?
Welcome to the two-vaccine conundrum.
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Mario Tama / Getty One of Long COVID’s Most Misunderstood Symptoms
Ed Yong on what makes brain fog so unforgiving
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The Atlantic One of Long COVID’s Worst Symptoms Is Also Its Most Misunderstood
Brain fog isn’t like a hangover or depression. It’s a disorder of executive function that makes basic cognitive tasks absurdly hard.
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Getty; The Atlantic How Masking Changed My Experience of Being Deaf
The pandemic forced me to communicate differently.
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Jim Wilson / The New York Times / … Are We Really Getting COVID Boosters Every Year Forever?
Prepare yourself for a lifetime of fall vaccine campaigns.
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Kevin Frayer / Getty Zero COVID Has Outlived Its Usefulness. Here’s Why China Is Still Enforcing It.
The Communist Party’s real priority is protecting itself, not the public.
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Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic The Pandemic Is Coming for Your Pocketbook
The forthcoming “commercialization” of COVID-19 treatment will create major challenges.
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Justin Sullivan / Getty America’s Baffling Booster Messaging
“Vaccines are super important, but they can’t do this job alone.”
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The Atlantic Three Solutions for Public Health—And One Dangerous Idea
The agency I used to lead is beset by slowness, impracticality, and lack of strategic thinking—but its mission is too essential to abandon.
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Stanley O. Foster / CDC / World Health … What I Learned From the World’s Last Smallpox Patient
Declaring victory over a disease is easier than meeting survivors’ needs.
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The Atlantic; Getty ‘It Just Seems Like My Patients Are Sicker’
For much of the pandemic, Americans put off nonemergency health care. That could haunt us for years to come.
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The Atlantic A Simple Rule for Planning Your Fall Booster Shot
Everyone will probably gain something from the updated vaccines. Here’s how to make the most of it.
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Arnold Jerocki / Getty America’s Fall Booster Plan Has a Fatal Paradox
New boosters that target Omicron may be our most important COVID vaccines since 2020—but the U.S. may be setting up the new shots to fail.
