Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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Steve Pfost / Newsday RM via Getty Private Labs Are Fueling a New Coronavirus Testing Crisis
Backlogs at private laboratories have ballooned, making it difficult to treat suffering patients and contain the pandemic.
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The Atlantic America’s Other Heroes
On a recent visit to San Antonio, I encountered a new example of selfless service.
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MediaNews Group / Orange County Register / Getty Let People Out of Jail
A coronavirus outbreak in prisons and jails will harm not only inmates, but the public at large.
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Topical Press Agency via Getty Images How the 1918 Pandemic Frayed Social Bonds
The influenza pandemic did long-lasting damage to relationships in some American communities. Could the mistrust have been prevented?
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Lindsey Wasson / Reuters We Need 1 Million Tests a Week
If the country hopes to end social distancing and regional lockdowns, the only solution is to build a comprehensive testing infrastructure.
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Three Scenarios for How This Ends
On a recent episode of Social Distance, Ed Yong joins to discuss how the coronavirus outbreak will play out in the United States.
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Jesse Dearing / The Boston Globe / Getty Innocent Prisoners Are Going to Die of the Coronavirus
When the machinery of justice is halted abruptly, some of the people trapped inside are not supposed to be there at all.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Political Genius of Donald Trump
The president is transmuting his calamitous failures into political gold.
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Getty images / The Atlantic We Need to Start Tossing Money Out of Helicopters
It’s the best option in such extreme circumstances.
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Channarong Pherngianda / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Why There’s No National Lockdown
Enforcing a large-scale quarantine would be legally murky, even if it’s what the country needs to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
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The Atlantic How to Talk About the Coronavirus
Four ways to help those around you be better informed about the pandemic
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Alexander Drago / Reuters For Trump, Power Is for Self-Preservation Only
During impeachment, Trump claimed far-reaching authority. In a national emergency, he throws up his hands.
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Tasos Katopodis / Getty This Isn’t All Trump’s Fault (But He Isn’t Helping Either)
Even with perfect leadership, the pandemic was always going to be bad. But the president has caused the crisis to be far worse.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic The Case Against Waging ‘War’ on the Coronavirus
Leaders invoking battle terminology to galvanize national action risk achieving the opposite.
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Pool / Getty Exclusive: Kushner Firm Built the Coronavirus Website Trump Promised
The extent of Oscar Health’s work on coronavirus testing hasn’t been previously reported.
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George Frey / Getty A Moment for Drive-In Movie Theaters
Moviegoers attending drive-ins during the pandemic—finding entertainment outside their homes, together with others, yet safely apart
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Misha Friedman Are Community Hospitals Ready for the Coronavirus?
A physician describes the gap between well-resourced institutions and those struggling to prepare.
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Chloe Scheffe The Routines That Keep Us Sane
More than most, writers have experience with what the poet May Sarton called “a limbo that needs to be patterned from within,” and they provide us with some relevant case studies in how to weave that pattern.
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Alexander Drago / Reuters The Thing That Determines a Country’s Resistance to the Coronavirus
The major dividing line in effective crisis response will not place autocracies on one side and democracies on the other.
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John Minchillo / AP If Trump Can’t Do the Job, Other People Need To
The president is more hindrance than help, so leaders in and out of government have to plan around him.
