Alexis C. Madrigal
He is the author of Powering the Dream and the forthcoming The Pacific Circuit. He created the podcast Containers and the television show Real Future. He previously worked at Wired, at Univision, and in various editorial roles at The Atlantic.
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Getty; The Atlantic Getting Back to Normal Is Only Possible Until You Test Positive
I was ultracareful for 18 months. Then I got COVID.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Messiest Phase of the Pandemic Yet
Coronavirus data have always been incomplete—but the situation in America is particularly murky now.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Threat That COVID-19 Poses Now
After a year of waves and surges, the pandemic is entering a “tornado” phase in America.
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NIAID / The Atlantic Why the Pandemic Experts Failed
We’re still thinking about pandemic data in the wrong ways.
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The Atlantic A Simple Rule of Thumb for Knowing When the Pandemic Is Over
At some point—maybe even soon—the emergency phase of the pandemic will end. But what, exactly, is that magic threshold?
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic America’s Most Reliable Pandemic Data Are Now at Risk
The Biden administration has to make a choice: Should it undo a vital system that Trump’s health department created?
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Getty / Paul Spella / The Atlantic America Has Not Fixed Its Deadliest Pandemic Errors
The COVID Tracking Project’s extensive, daily data collection reveals the simple yet devastating ways the U.S. has failed.
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Go Nakamura / Getty One Day, 3,000 Deaths
The pandemic set a devastating record today. It will not be the last.
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Go Nakamura / Getty The U.S. Has Passed the Hospital Breaking Point
A new statistic shows that health-care workers are running out of space to treat COVID-19 patients.
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Shutterstock / Paul Spella / The Atlantic How Many Americans Are About to Die?
A new analysis shows that the country is on track to pass spring’s grimmest record.
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Erin Clark / The Boston Globe / Getty Hospitals Can’t Go On Like This
Twenty-two percent of American hospitals don’t have enough workers right now.
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Go Nakamura / Getty The Worst Day of the Pandemic Since May
COVID-19 hospitalizations are now at an all-time high.
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Callaghan O'Hare / The New York Times / … A Dreadful New Peak for the American Pandemic
The country recorded more than 100,000 coronavirus cases on Wednesday—the highest single-day total since the pandemic began.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Why Trump’s Rapid-Testing Plan Worries Scientists
Experts were already divided on the right way to deploy new coronavirus tests. Then the White House barged ahead.
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Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Now What?
The president’s COVID-19 diagnosis raises a number of questions about when the president was infected and how many other people in the White House might be sick.
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Mandel Ngan / Getty Fauci to a Meddling HHS Official: ‘Take a Hike’
The nation’s top public-health expert addresses political interference in the COVID-19 response, but urges Americans to focus on the winter ahead.
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Yulia Reznikov / Getty / COVID Tracking Project … The Fog of the Pandemic Is Returning
Millions of coronavirus tests may be happening without their results being made public.
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Getty / The Atlantic A New Era of Coronavirus Testing Is About to Begin
A newly authorized test promises to double America’s monthly testing capacity, thanks in part to a huge purchase by the Trump administration. Can the test deliver?
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Adam Maida The Plan That Could Give Us Our Lives Back
The U.S. has never had enough coronavirus tests. Now a group of epidemiologists, economists, and dreamers is plotting a new strategy to defeat the virus, even before a vaccine is found.
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Shutterstock; illustration by Paul Spella / The Atlantic A Second Coronavirus Death Surge Is Coming
There was always a logical explanation for why cases rose through the end of June while deaths did not.
