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Mailson Pignata / Getty A Pivotal Mosquito Experiment Could Not Have Gone Better
An extremely common microbe can stop the insects from spreading the virus that causes dengue fever.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic / Shutterstock Neuroscientists Have Discovered a Phenomenon That They Can’t Explain
“Scientists are meant to know what’s going on, but in this particular case, we are deeply confused.”
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The Atlantic The Fundamental Question of the Pandemic Is Shifting
We understand how this will end. But who bears the risk that remains?
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JOSH EDELSON / AFP / Getty An Unorthodox Strategy to Stop Cars From Hitting Deer
Try wolves.
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Getty / The Atlantic What Happens When Americans Can Finally Exhale
The pandemic’s mental wounds are still wide open.
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Steve Geer / Getty Cicadas Have an Existential Problem
The bacteria that live inside the insects can’t keep themselves together.
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Joan Wong Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us
As vaccines roll out, the U.S. will face a choice about what to learn and what to forget.
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Ricardo Tomás How Science Beat the Virus
And what it lost in the process
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Getty / The Atlantic Hospitals Know What’s Coming
“We are on an absolutely catastrophic path,” said a COVID-19 doctor at America’s best-prepared hospital.
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Jae C. Hong / AP ‘No One Is Listening to Us’
More people than ever are hospitalized with COVID-19. Health-care workers can’t go on like this.
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The Atlantic America Is About to Choose How Bad the Pandemic Will Get
If Donald Trump is reelected, he will continue to downplay the threat of the coronavirus, and more Americans will fall ill.
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Getty / Shutterstock / The Atlantic What Strength Really Means When You’re Sick
The metaphors that Trump and others use when talking about COVID-19 are making the pandemic worse.
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Scott Olson / Getty / The Atlantic Biden’s Negative Test Result Isn’t Enough to Say He’s in the Clear
Trump could have infected him. We won’t know with certainty for another week.
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JOHN THYS / Getty Bill Gates: The Pandemic Has Erased Years of Progress
“If you only look at COVID deaths, you’re actually missing the scale of the setback.”
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DeAgostini / Getty The Core Lesson of the COVID-19 Heart Debate
The new coronavirus seems so strange because it has our full attention in a way most viruses don’t.
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Aaron Marin America Is Trapped in a Pandemic Spiral
As the U.S. heads toward the winter, the country is going round in circles, making the same conceptual errors that have plagued it since spring.
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Getty / Paul Spella / The Atlantic Long-Haulers Are Redefining COVID-19
Without understanding the lingering illness that some patients experience, we can’t understand the pandemic.
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The Atlantic Immunology Is Where Intuition Goes to Die
Which is too bad because we really need to understand how the immune system reacts to the coronavirus.
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Dina Litovsky / Redux How the Pandemic Defeated America
A virus has brought the world’s most powerful country to its knees.
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Drew Angerer / Getty / Katie Martin / … Fauci: ‘Bizarre’ White House Behavior Only Hurts the President
The nation’s top public-health expert tells The Atlantic that he isn’t going anywhere, despite the Trump administration’s newest attempts to undercut him.
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