Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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Nam Y. Huh / AP The End Days of the Democratic Primary
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s lo-fi address to the nation was an eerie reminder of where we find ourselves in this uncertain moment.
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fpm / Getty / Katie Martin / The … Live: Answers to Your Coronavirus Questions
Join Jim Hamblin, M.D., for a discussion on the latest information surrounding COVID-19.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty NIH Director: ‘We’re on an Exponential Curve’
Francis Collins speaks about the coronavirus, his faith, and an unusual friendship.
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Gao Jing Xinhua / eyevine / Redux A Letter From Wartime France
Streets that are normally busy, all of a sudden aren’t.
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Richard Ross / Getty What It Really Means to Cancel Elective Surgeries
To make room for coronavirus patients, hospitals are delaying procedures that would make major differences in people’s lives.
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Patrick Semansky / AP The Coming Bailout Is a Moral Failure
Congress has leverage to rebalance the economy, but so far, it isn’t using it.
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Alexey_M / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Dear Therapist’s Guide to Staying Sane During a Pandemic
You can let anxiety consume you, or you can feel the fear and also find joy in ordinary life, even now.
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Leah Mills / Reuters Trump Defended Cuts to Public-Health Agencies, on Video
In a press briefing, the president said of public-health professionals, “I don’t like having thousands of people around when you don’t need them.”
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Jayme Gershen / Bloomberg via Getty A Primary? In a Pandemic?
Voting is the opposite of social distancing. But Americans in Arizona, Florida, and Illinois are still heading to the polls.
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Maria Spann Ode to Social Distancing
A poem for Tuesday
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Bettmann / Getty / The Atlantic The Next, Terrible Phase of This Crisis
After cancellation comes triage.
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Vladimir Sviracevic / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Trump Leaves States to Fend for Themselves
The coronavirus is America’s first 50-state disaster, and each governor is dependent on outside help that may never come.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump Seems to Be Missing His Old Scandals
Why would the president, in the midst of an enormous public-health crisis, want to reignite the story of the Russian-collusion investigation that dominated his first two years in office?
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George Frey / Steven Ferdman / Getty / … What If Andrew Yang Was Right?
Mitt Romney has joined the chorus of voices calling for all Americans to receive free money directly from the government.
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Vahram Muradyan Now Is the Time to Overreact
If the measures we're taking to fight the coronavirus work, they'll look excessive later on. But the alternative is worse.
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Warner Brothers / Everett Collection The Problem of the Pandemic Movie
The 1995 film Outbreak offers a narrow vision of heroism during an epidemiological crisis. That message is ill-suited to the realities of the coronavirus.
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Gabriela Bhaskar / The New York Times / … The Real Lesson of the College Closures
Outside the Ivy League, students who go home for the semester are at risk of leaving school for good.
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BSIP / Universal Images / Getty / Shutterstock … How Parents Can Keep Kids Busy (and Learning) in Quarantine
As American schools close, parents are suddenly faced with the challenge of keeping their children occupied at home.
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Yasser Al-Zayyat / AFP / Getty Photos: Life in the Coronavirus Era
Scenes from the pandemic, and of people coping with the many problems it is causing
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Listen: The Time for Cash
Annie Lowrey, a staff writer covering the economy, explains what needs to happen right away to keep people safe and secure.
