Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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RW / MediaPunch / IPX The James Bond Movie Was Unusually Vulnerable to the Coronavirus
The release of No Time to Die was delayed because of the outbreak—and for reasons that could affect other major 2020 films.
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Marzio Toniolo / Reuters The Pattern That Epidemics Always Follow
First comes denial. Then panic.
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Bebeto Matthews / AP We Can Still Avoid the Worst-Case Scenario
The spread of the coronavirus may be inevitable, but the choices we make now will determine how bad the outbreak will get.
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Bloomberg / Getty The Coronavirus Is More Than Just a Health Crisis
National leaders are leaning on experts to help deal with the outbreak, but the really difficult decisions are not medical. They are political.
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Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic You Already Live in Quarantine
Being holed up at home has never been more pleasant.
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The Atlantic America’s Nursing Homes Are Bracing for an Outbreak
As the disease caused by the coronavirus has spread in a nursing home near Seattle, other facilities around the country are implementing plans to mitigate risk.
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H. Armstrong Roberts / ClassicStock / Getty The Small Stresses of Keeping Coronavirus-Free
Why is it so, so hard to stop touching your face?
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Mykola Tys / Reuters The Coronavirus Is Exposing the Limits of Populism
Expertise matters. Institutions matter. There is such a thing as the global community. The system must be made to work again.
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Mohamed Abd El Ghany / Reuters Here’s Who Should Be Avoiding Crowds Right Now
Canceling major public events is wise, but most Americans need not stay away from crowds or airplanes.
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David Smart / Shutterstock / Katie Martin / … What You Can Do Right Now About the Coronavirus
Preventing the spread of an outbreak requires a massive global effort, but here are steps everyone can take.
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The Atlantic The Official Coronavirus Numbers Are Wrong, and Everyone Knows It
Because the U.S. data on coronavirus infections are so deeply flawed, the quantification of the outbreak obscures more than it illuminates.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump’s Playbook Is Terribly Ill-Suited to a Pandemic
The president cannot rely on his usual strategies of lying and bullying to fight the spread of the coronavirus.
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Edward A. "Doc" Rogers / Library of Congress … The Coronavirus Is No 1918 Pandemic
The differences between the global response to the Great Flu Pandemic and today’s COVID-19 outbreak could not be more striking.
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David Rider / Reuters What Trump Could Do Right Now to Keep Workers Safe From the Coronavirus
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has the power to institute emergency standards—but that would require the president to overcome his aversion to regulation.
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Marzio Toniolo / Reuters Epidemics Reveal the Truth About the Societies They Hit
A nation’s response to disaster speaks to its strengths—and to its dysfunctions.
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Kena Betancur / Getty The Paralyzing Uncertainty of Not Knowing Whether You’ll Get Sick
When I was exposed to the Ebola virus, I spent hours in a peculiar kind of panic.
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Jose A. Bernat Bacete / Getty Our Plague Year
We must heed the logic of rationality and science—but also the logic captured by artists, poets, and storytellers.
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Henry Romero / Reuters What the Dubious Corona Poll Reveals
Americans are desperate to believe the worst about one another.
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Martin Lisner / Shutterstock / The Atlantic How to Think About the Plummeting Stock Market
No one knows exactly how much damage the coronavirus will do to the global economy, but investors have to guess.
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Robert Nickelsberg / Getty The Problem With Telling Sick Workers to Stay Home
Even with the coronavirus spreading, lax labor laws and little sick leave mean that many people can’t afford to skip work.
