Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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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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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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NIAID / The Atlantic Listen: Coronavirus Mutations
How bad are the new COVID-19 variants, really?
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Coronavirus Is Evolving Before Our Eyes
The virus is mutating as expected. We can still stop it.
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San Francisco Chronicle / Getty / The Atlantic The Worst Week for Deaths Since the Pandemic Began
States reported 23,259 COVID-19 deaths this week, and the number of people hospitalized with the disease is still rising.
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Scott Olson / Getty We Don’t Know How Many People Have Recovered From COVID-19
Recovery has no standard definition, and some states, including California and Florida, do not report such data at all.
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Hannah R. Anderson Yes, the Pandemic Is Ruining Your Body
Quarantine is turning you into a stiff, hunched-over, itchy, sore, headachy husk.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Random People Are Lining Up to Get Vaccinated in D.C. Grocery Stores
Pharmacies have started quietly offering leftover COVID-19 shots to anyone around. You can guess where this goes.
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Vincent Catala / Agence VU / Redux Why Aren’t We Wearing Better Masks?
Cloth masks are better than nothing, but they were supposed to be a stopgap measure.
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AP / Jacquelyn Martin / The Atlantic Listen: How Badly Is Vaccination Going?
We’re behind, but that may change quickly.
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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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Jose Luis Pelaez / Getty Put On a Hat, Please
I’m just a kindly winter evangelist, standing in front of your outdoor restaurant table, asking you to wear layers.
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Go Nakamura / Getty The Pandemic Metric to Trust Right Now
Death and case counts are unreliable during the holidays, but hospitalizations are hitting new records in the South and West.
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John Moore / Getty The Mutated Virus Is a Ticking Time Bomb
There is much we don’t know about the new COVID-19 variant—but everything we know so far suggests a huge danger.
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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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PATRICK T. FALLON / AFP / Getty The Winter Surge Is Fracturing
Hospitalizations are down across the Midwest, but a handful of states are showing worrisome signs.
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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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Getty / The Atlantic The Pandemic Is Crashing Through the South and the West
Five states—Arizona, California, Florida, Tennessee, and Texas—account for 40 percent of all new cases reported in the past seven days.
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Ian Waldie / Getty A Pandemic Pregnancy Is a More Dangerous Pregnancy
Even for those who haven’t contracted COVID-19
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Go Nakamura / Getty December Is Now the Deadliest Month of the Pandemic
With days left to go in the month, the number of deaths reported passed April’s high.
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