Sarah Zhang
The Last Children of Down Syndrome
Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t. This is just the beginning.
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REUTERS/Flavio Lo Sc Why Kids Might Be Key to Reaching Herd Immunity
Children rarely get very ill from COVID-19. But there’s another reason to vaccinate them.
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Simoul Alva A Troubling New Pattern Among the Coronavirus Variants
The most concerning versions of the virus are not simply mutating—they’re mutating in similar ways.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Next Phase of Vaccination Will Be Even Harder
Getting vaccines to hospitals and nursing homes was supposed to be the easy part.
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Shutterstock / Getty / The Atlantic We Know Almost Nothing About Giant Viruses
An enigmatic group of microbes seems to have an unusual new ability.
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Craig F. Walker / Reuters What the Vaccine’s Side Effects Feel Like
The COVID-19 vaccine will make some people feel sick. But they’re not—that’s the immune system doing its job.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic The Next 6 Months Will Be Vaccine Purgatory
The period after a vaccine is approved will be strange and confusing, as certain groups of people get vaccinated but others have to wait.
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Siphiwe Sibeko / Reuters The Long Haul of Vaccine Results Is Just Beginning
The initial results of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine trials were unexpected and confusing, but there’s more data to come.
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Herb Snitzer / Getty The End of the Pandemic Is Now in Sight
A year of scientific uncertainty is over. Two vaccines look like they will work, and more should follow.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Lame-Duck Vaccine
The Trump administration spurred development of a vaccine; the Biden administration has to persuade Americans to take it.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Simple Rule That Could Keep COVID-19 Deaths Down
The longer we can prevent infections, the better prepared we will be to treat them.
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Peter Dazeley / Getty / Katie Martin / … The Vaccine News That Really Matters
Soon COVID-19 vaccine makers will release early data from large clinical trials, and the results could be ambiguous.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic The President’s Latest Silver Bullet
Trump claims his illness has led him to a coronavirus “cure.” Antibody therapy is still far from that.
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Getty / The Atlantic Vaccine Chaos Is Looming
The COVID-19 vaccines furthest along in clinical trials are the fastest to make, but they are also the hardest to deploy.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic One Sperm Donor. 36 Children. A Mess of Lawsuits.
Parents thought Donor 9623 was a genius who spoke four languages, not a college dropout with a criminal record.
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Mladen Antonov / AFP /Getty America Is Running Low on a Crucial Resource for COVID-19 Vaccines
The country is facing a monkey shortage.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic What the ‘Emergency’ Blood-Plasma Debacle Reveals
If the FDA’s emergency authorizations aren’t used responsibly, they could lose their power.
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Brian L. Frank / The New York Times … The Coronavirus Is Never Going Away
No matter what happens now, the virus will continue to circulate around the world.
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The Atlantic A Vaccine Reality Check
So much hope is riding on a breakthrough, but a vaccine is only the beginning of the end.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Birdsong That Took Over North America
Since 2000, a strange new type of song in white-throated sparrows has spread across the continent at stunning speed.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic What a Negative COVID-19 Test Really Means
We know very little about how reliable tests are for people who don’t feel sick.
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