Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Source: Getty. It’s Not the Economy. It’s the Pandemic.
Joe Biden is paying the price for America’s unprocessed COVID grief.
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Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Source: Getty. The Pandemic’s ‘Ghost Architecture’ Is Still Haunting Us
“Stand six feet apart” signs are outdated, ignored, and everywhere.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: lesichkadesign / Getty. Why Are We Still Flu-ifying COVID?
The diseases are nowhere near the same.
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Andrew West / The News Press / USA … Florida’s Experiment With Measles
How far can the state go before a serious outbreak hits?
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Chris Sorensen / Gallery Stock ‘If Exercise Could Cure This, I Would Have Been Cured So Quickly’
Striving for fitness is usually healing. But for most people with long COVID, it can be toxic.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. How Much Less to Worry About Long COVID Now
New cases seem to be less common nowadays, but that change is not as comforting as it sounds.
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Gabriel Bouys / AFP / Getty America Is Having a Senior Moment on Vaccines
Many of the people most at risk of dying aren’t getting COVID shots.
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Millennium Images / Gallery Stock Winter Illness This Year Is a Different Kind of Ugly
Facing down simultaneous surges of flu, COVID, and RSV, most Americans still aren’t getting the vaccines that could temper the worst effects.
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H. Armstrong Roberts / ClassicStock / Getty We’re Living the Reality of the Pandemic’s Simplest Math
Sick season will be worse from now on.
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Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic A Winter of Low COVID Vaccination Will Probably Seem Fine
Until we start to see the longer-term consequences of missed shots
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Getty The One Thing Everyone Should Know About Fall COVID Vaccines
The simplest way to think about them—everyone should just get one—is arguably the best.
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Miguel Medina / AFP / Getty The Big COVID Question for Hospitals This Fall
With universal masking mandates almost entirely gone, hospitals now have to decide when—or if—to bring requirements back.
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Alessia Pierdomenico / Bloomberg / Getty Fall’s Vaccine Routine Didn’t Have to Be This Hard
The most effective way to increase vaccine uptake is to make getting shots easy. So why aren’t we doing that?
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Source: Getty. One More COVID Summer?
A mid-year wave might be brewing for the fourth year in a row. Will it always be like this?
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Patrick Pleul / picture alliance / Getty The Ticks Are Winning
Their saliva is a secret weapon.
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The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The Republican Lab-Leak Circus Makes One Important Point
“Lab leak” has too many meanings.
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Feature China / Future Publishing / Getty Has COVID’s Patient Zero Finally Been Named?
A major revelation about researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology emerged this week. We still can’t say we’re any closer to the truth.
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Leon Neal / Getty Fall’s COVID Shots May Be Different in One Key Way
This year’s might include XBB.1 and … perhaps no other strain.
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Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Source: … There Is No Evidence Strong Enough to End the Pandemic-Origins Debate
The recent fight over wet-market raccoon dogs underscores just how much prior beliefs can affect interpretation.
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The Atlantic The Latest COVID Variants Have a Surprising Feature in Common
Over and over again, genetic mutations are preventing a protein once thought to be key to the virus’s success from being expressed.
