Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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Mega Pixel / skvalval / Katie Martin / … The Technology That Could Free America From Quarantine
Contact tracing is working in South Korea and Singapore. But it raises privacy issues.
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MANDEL NGAN / AFP / GETTY Trump’s Allies Know He Has Failed
Defenders of the president seem to have settled on the excuse that the White House botched its pandemic preparations because it was too distracted by the drama on Capitol Hill.
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MANDEL NGAN / AFP / GETTY This Is Trump’s Fault
The president is failing, and Americans are paying for his failures.
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Alicia Tatone / The Atlantic America Is Thirsty for Anthony Fauci
What is it about a crisis that can turn even a 79-year-old immunologist into a heartthrob?
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Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty The Imperial Presidency Comes to a Sudden Halt
Trump’s hands-off approach to the coronavirus is in keeping with the Founders’ original vision—and is occurring at precisely the wrong time.
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The Atlantic Why Does the President Keep Pushing a Malaria Drug?
What is actually known about hydroxychloroquine, the medication that Trump is fixated on recommending for COVID-19
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The Atlantic / Arsh Raziuddin Why People Are Confessing Their Crushes Right Now
Feelings, like most everything else, become more urgent during a pandemic.
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mim.girl / Shutterstock / The Atlantic What the Racial Data Show
The pandemic seems to be hitting people of color the hardest.
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Andrew Harnik /AP In Right-Wing Media, the Pivot Didn’t Happen
The president belatedly acknowledged how dire a threat COVID-19 is, but many of his enablers in right-wing media refuse to take his cue.
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Handout / Reuters Britain Just Got Pulled Back From the Edge
The country has reasserted its foundational stability, and in doing so made real change more likely once this is all over.
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C. S. Muncy / Redux The Mayor Who Can’t Rise to the Occasion
New York’s Bill de Blasio seems irritated by the need to fight the coronavirus.
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Ray Stubblebine / Reuters The 9/11 Era Is Over
The coronavirus pandemic and a chapter of history that should have expired long ago
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Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic Wisconsin’s Warning for the November Election
How are people expected to vote if they’re not supposed to even leave their homes?
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Galerie Bilderwelt / Getty Images The Pandemic’s Economic Lessons
The most important ones are those that give us a glimpse of debates we will face once the crisis is over.
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Angus Mordant / Bloomberg / Getty This Is What Happens When the Federal Government Abandons You
Local officials and health-care workers are losing faith in the national response, and struggling to improvise their own solutions.
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Aly Song / Reuters Consider the Possibility That Trump Is Right About China
Critics are letting their disdain for the president blind them to geopolitical realities.
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wikicommons / The Atlantic The Revolution Is Under Way Already
Far from making Americans crave stability, the pandemic underscores how everything is up for grabs.
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Carl Iwasaki / The LIFE Images Collection / … How to Fix Our Voting Rules Before November
States need to ensure that every citizen can vote, and that every vote gets counted.
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Listen: Should You Wear a Mask?
What the new CDC recommendations on mask-wearing actually mean.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Even Now, Criminal Defendants Have Rights
During a pandemic, the presumption of innocence still applies.
