Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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Naomi Elliott Trapped at Home With People You Met on Craigslist
No one answers an ad for roommates expecting to end up quarantined with them.
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Jim Watson / Getty Authoritarian Populists Have Six Classic Moves. Trump’s Response to COVID-19 Uses Five of Them.
While the president may not be using the coronavirus to consolidate power, Americans should still be worried about the threat he poses to democracy.
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Bettman / Getty We Can’t Tell How Bad Things Really Are
Just as in 1929, a lack of accurate and timely data is exacting an enormous economic toll.
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Simoul Alva The Four Rules of Pandemic Economics
A playbook that should govern America’s short-term reaction to the health crisis.
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Aaron P / Bauer-Griffin / Getty Big Cities Won’t Snap Back to Normal
And as long as they’re closed for business, the economy will remain stalled too.
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(Turjoy Chowdhury / NurPhoto via Getty Images) The Unseen Pandemic
Refugee camps such as those in Bangladesh are a tinderbox for the spread of the coronavirus.
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Robert Nickelsberg / Getty Why Don’t We Know Who the Coronavirus Victims Are?
The coronavirus is infecting and killing Americans of all races. But there’s little public data on whether the virus is having a disproportionate impact on some communities.
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Library of Congress / Shutterstock / Klara Auerbach … How the Coronavirus Is Influencing Children’s Play
Play is children’s language, and parents shouldn’t be concerned if the pandemic has been showing up in kids’ games lately.
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CBS Broadcasting The Importance of Partying Alone
Is it any coincidence that the No. 1 song in the country is about loneliness and empty streets—or that it’s making people dance like Richard Simmons in their bedrooms?
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Alex Merto The Virus Is a Reminder of Something Lost Long Ago
In rebuilding a broken world, we will have the chance to choose a less hurried life.
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Victor J. Blue / Getty Everyone Thinks They’re Right About Masks
How the coronavirus travels through the air has become one of the most divisive debates in this pandemic.
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Aleksandra Michalska / Reuters An Ethicist on How to Make Impossible Decisions
Arthur Caplan, NYU’s chief medical ethicist, discusses the tough calls doctors have to make on how to ration care.
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Mondadori / Getty Getting Through a Pandemic With Old-Fashioned Crafts
Like many others in these times, I’ve turned to arts such as crochet and knitting to make sense of the chaos around me.
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BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / Getty Trump Shouldn’t Be Able to Fire Fauci for Contradicting Him
Congress should act to protect directors of the various parts of the National Institutes of Health—of whom Anthony Fauci is one—from the wrath of the president.
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Patrick Pleul / picture alliance / Getty Searching for Connection While Apart
Experiencing art, sports, music—life—together is something we all need.
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Giles Clarke / Getty Can’t We at Least Give Prisoners Soap?
As coronavirus fears spread among incarcerated people and those advocating on their behalf, I’ve heard again and again about soap.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump Finally Recognized His Mistake
The president had downplayed the coronavirus for short-term political gain. But acknowledging the threat is in his long-term interest.
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Getty Images / The Atlantic The Other Way the Coronavirus Will Ravage Our Cities
After the rush for ventilators and protective equipment, local governments need to worry about insolvency.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic The Interminable Body Count
We may never know how many people the coronavirus kills: “It sounds like it could be totally obvious—just count body bags. It’s not obvious at all.”
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Listen: How the Coronavirus Is Scrambling Our Politics
The pandemic meets the culture war.
