Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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Bettmann / Getty What the Great Plague of Athens Can Teach Us Now
Disease changed the course of the war, and shaped the peace that came afterward, planting the seeds that would destroy Athenian democracy.
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Listen: Why Everyone Is Watching Contagion
A guide to culture in this anxious moment
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The Atlantic The Biggest Worry for Doctors Fighting the Pandemic
America’s medical professionals are risking their lives. But their greatest fear is that they’ll move from being part of the solution to part of the problem.
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Chris Carlson / AP Images I Used to Run ICE. We Need to Release the Nonviolent Detainees.
It’s the only way to protect detention facilities and the people in them from COVID-19.
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Rick Maiman / AP Images The Epidemics America Got Wrong
Government inaction or delay have shaped the course of many infectious disease outbreaks in our country.
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John Taggart / The New York Times / … The Coronavirus Could Cause a Social Recession
Economic slowdowns are easy to measure, but the lingering damage to communal bonds may be no less harmful.
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Listen: On the Front Lines at a New York Hospital
The mask shortages in New York are worse than we imagined.
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Listen: Why Can’t I Get Tested?
The U.S. is lagging behind on testing and in the race to get a comprehensive picture of the pandemic. The Atlantic’s Alexis C. Madrigal helps explain why.
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Rachel Levit Ruiz When You’re Pregnant During a Pandemic
I’m a war correspondent, but nothing prepared me for navigating the joys and fears of pregnancy under lockdown
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Wil Sands / Redux The Coronavirus Comes to a ‘Handshake Town’
The capital’s main business relies on human contact. Now professional networkers are confronting its dangers.
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Nicolò Campo / Getty You Should Already Be in Lockdown
“Six feet away” just doesn’t cut it.
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters The Right Way to Activate the National Guard
There are three methods of mobilizing America’s citizen soldiers. Which one Trump chooses will matter a great deal.
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H. Armstrong Roberts / Getty / The Atlantic Denmark’s Idea Could Help the World Avoid a Great Depression
“We are freezing the economy.”
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Hanna Barczyk and Franziska Barczyk How the Coronavirus Became an American Catastrophe
The death and economic damage sweeping the United States could have been avoided—if only we had started testing for the virus sooner.
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Instagram @gal_gadot Celebrities Have Never Been Less Entertaining
Top singers and actors are live-streaming from quarantine, appearing equally bored and technologically inept.
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Todd Heisler / The New York Times / … The Crisis Could Last 18 Months. Be Prepared.
The shutdowns happened remarkably quickly, but the process of resuming our lives will be far more muddled.
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FPG / Hulton Archive / Getty COVID-19 Vaccines Are Coming, but They’re Not What You Think
These novel approaches could fail in many ways.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters An Invitation to Corruption
As long as lawmakers are allowed to trade individual stocks, disaster profiteering is always a risk.
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Hanna Barczyk and Franziska Barczyk Here’s How Many People Have the Coronavirus in Your State
The country still hasn’t tested enough people to discover most cases, experts say. But our tracker has the latest numbers of confirmed cases for every state.
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Image Source / Getty / The Atlantic Who Will Run the Soup Kitchens?
Is it better to put volunteers and the needy at risk by keeping important services open, or to stay home, knowing people will go hungry as a result?
