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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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Nicola Muirhead America Should Prepare for a Double Pandemic
COVID-19 has steamrolled the country. What happens if another pandemic starts before this one is over?
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Shutterstock / Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic The Pandemic Experts Are Not Okay
Many American public-health specialists are at risk of burning out as the coronavirus surges back.
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Getty / Paul Spella / The Atlantic COVID-19 Can Last for Several Months
The disease’s “long-haulers” have endured relentless waves of debilitating symptoms—and disbelief from doctors and friends.
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Joan Wong America’s Patchwork Pandemic Is Fraying Even Further
The coronavirus is coursing through different parts of the U.S. in different ways, making the crisis harder to predict, control, or understand.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Problem With Stories About Dangerous Coronavirus Mutations
There’s no clear evidence that the pandemic virus has evolved into significantly different forms—and there probably won’t be for months.
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Joan Wong Why the Coronavirus Is So Confusing
A guide to making sense of a problem that is now too big for any one person to fully comprehend
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Joan Wong Our Pandemic Summer
The fight against the coronavirus won’t be over when the U.S. reopens. Here’s how the nation must prepare itself.
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Victor J. Blue / Getty Everyone Thinks They’re Right About Masks
How the coronavirus travels through the air has become one of the most divisive debates in this pandemic.
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