Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty A Prominent Vaccine Skeptic Returns to Twitter
A year after he was banned, Alex Berenson sued his way back. Are more lawsuits coming?
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Tyler Comrie; Getty I Can’t Wait Out the Pandemic Any Longer
COVID still threatens to hospitalize or disable me, but I’m done putting my life on pause.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Help That Never Came
The pandemic’s lockdowns and school closures put parents under unprecedented pressure—and moms, not dads, took the strain.
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Guy Prives / Getty The Pandemic’s Soft Closing
The CDC’s latest COVID guidelines are the closest the nation’s leaders have come to saying the coronavirus crisis is done.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic How Future Generations Will Remember Us
History is a long series of moral abominations.
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Sean Gallup / Getty The Odds of Getting COVID From Your Housemate Are ‘About a Coin Flip’
If the virus is in your house, you can still escape it.
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Getty; Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic It’s Not Just Long COVID
Society has been underestimating the long-term consequences of viruses, bacterial infections, and parasites for ages.
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John J. Custer How California Exported Its Worst Problem to Texas
The pandemic was supposed to ease high housing prices in coastal superstar cities. Instead, it spread them nationwide.
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John J. Custer; The Atlantic The Coronavirus Has One Strategy We Can’t Vaccinate Against
It may be getting better at dodging one of the immune system’s main defenses.
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John J Custer / The Atlantic The Three COVID Developments I’m Still Holding Out Hope For
We don’t have to be in this COVID rut forever.
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John J. Custer / The Atlantic Willed Helplessness Is the American Condition
To wrap your mind around the reality of long COVID and its randomness is terrifying.
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Hector Vivas / Getty This COVID Summer Is Nothing Like the Last One
Boosters are on the horizon, but cases are way up—and have been for months.
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The Atlantic Every New Disease Triggers a Search for Someone to Blame
Focusing on a virus’s origins encourages individualized shame while ignoring the broader societal factors that contribute to a disease’s transmission.
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Alex Welsh / The New York Times / … Of Course Biden Has Rebound COVID
What is even going on with Paxlovid?
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AP / The Atlantic America Should Have Been Able to Handle Monkeypox
Has COVID taught us nothing?
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John J. Custer / The Atlantic How Long Can the Coronavirus Keep Reinfecting Us?
No one knows exactly what this will look like—only that it’s guaranteed to keep happening.
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Sergio Flores / Getty The U.S. Has No Plan to Prevent the Next Pandemic
We treat pandemics as inevitable when we could commit to averting them.
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The Atlantic Could Genetics Be the Key to Never Getting the Coronavirus?
Scientists have known for decades that some people can be resistant to HIV infection. Why not the coronavirus, too?
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Getty; The Atlantic The Novel That Captures New York City Right Now
Brother Alive feels like the first work of fiction since the beginning of the pandemic that reflects the mood of the city.
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Cyril Zannettacci / Redux America Is Running Out of ‘COVID Virgins’
If you haven’t gotten the coronavirus, are you a sitting duck?
