Olga Khazan
Being Black in America Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
In Baltimore and other segregated cities, the life-expectancy gap between African Americans and whites is as much as 20 years. One young woman’s struggle shows why.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Inside the Mind of an Anti-vaxxer
The majority of Americans will need to take the coming COVID-19 vaccine. Here’s how to persuade those who won’t want to.
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Jonas Bendiksen / Magnum How to Tell If Socializing Indoors Is Safe
As the weather gets colder, many Americans have no idea whether hanging out with other people inside is risky. That’s a big problem.
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Rafal Milach / Magnum How a Bizarre Claim About Masks Has Lived on for Months
Why the wrong idea that wearing a mask can harm your health has lived on through multiple debunkings
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Getty / The Atlantic Donald Trump’s Gold-Plated Health Care
When the average American is hospitalized for COVID-19, treatment isn’t nearly as accessible or cheap as it was for the president.
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Tasos Katopodis / Getty The Virus Is Coming From Inside the White House
Asking whether the celebration of Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination was a “super-spreader” event misses the point: Trump’s irresponsibility made this crisis likely.
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Getty / The Atlantic A Failure of Empathy Led to 200,000 Deaths. It Has Deep Roots.
One giant psychology experiment explains why many people seem like they don’t care about the deaths of the elderly.
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Getty Is This the Secret to Selling Joe Biden?
Young people aren’t particularly excited about Joe Biden. One strategy to change their mind? Convince them that they’re voting for a big, progressive crew.
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Lionel Bonaventure / AFP / Getty What Are Parents Supposed to Do With Their Kids?
With public schools closed, at least 15 states have no free child-care options for essential workers.
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The Atlantic The Most American COVID-19 Failure Yet
Contact tracing works almost everywhere else. Why not here?
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic America’s Terrible Internet Is Making Quarantine Worse
Why millions of students still can’t get online
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The Atlantic Why Can’t We Just Have Class Outside?
It might be the answer to America’s school-reopening problem.
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Peter Marlow / Magnum America’s Inescapable Offices
Workers who have already returned to their cubicle report days full of anxiety, masks, and sanitation shaming.
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Joris van Gennip / laif / Redux The U.S. Is Repeating Its Deadliest Pandemic Mistake
More than 40 percent of all coronavirus deaths in America have been in nursing homes. Here’s how it got so bad, and why there might still be more to come as cases surge in the Sun Belt.
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Fred Marvaux / Rea / Redux The School Reopeners Think America Is Forgetting About Kids
Some public-health experts say the costs of keeping schools closed outweigh the hazards of reopening them.
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Getty / The Atlantic A Common Snake Oil Reemerges for the Coronavirus
The pandemic has sparked an interest in dubious cures such as colloidal silver—and some are trying to capitalize on it.
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Alec Soth / Magnum The Millennial Mental-Health Crisis
Suicides and overdoses among young adults were already skyrocketing before the pandemic started. Now experts fear that the situation is going to get even worse.
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Ashley Gilbertson / VII / Redux Why People Loot
On who looters are, what they want, and why some protests are more likely to include them
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic A Hidden COVID-19 Risk Factor: Your Boss
America’s flawed approach to sick leave is making the pandemic worse.
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Stephane de Sakutin / Getty We’ll Be Wearing Things on Our Faces for a Long Time
You can choose between a mask and a face shield, but you can’t choose nothing.
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Diana Markosian / Magnum Pools Will Test the Limits of Social Distancing
Yes, you’ll have to stay six feet apart even when you’re in the water.
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