Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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Johannes Eisele / AFP / Getty This COVID Winter Will Be Different
But will it be better?
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TSPL / Camera Press / Redux What a ‘Tripledemic’ Means for Your Body
How many times will I get sick this winter?
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Getty; The Atlantic The Great Pandemic Hand-Washing Blooper
Should you wash your hands? Yes. Does it matter for respiratory viruses? Not as much as we once thought.
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Camilo Freedman / Getty The COVID Data That Are Actually Useful Now
Move over, case rates and hospitalizations. The next generation of COVID tracking is here.
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Salvatore Laporta / Kontrolab / Getty The Very Real Lessons America Has Learned From COVID
And the very real ones it has not
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MirageC / Getty The Masks We’ll Wear in the Next Pandemic
N95s are good. Some scientists want to do much better.
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Morteza Nikoubazl / NurPhoto / Getty Medium COVID Could Be the Most Dangerous COVID
After you’re infected, the first few months may pose the greatest risks.
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Getty A UV Lamp That’s Bad for COVID but Not for You
Researchers are testing lights that have the early potential to transform the pandemic.
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Getty; The Atlantic What Doctors Still Don’t Understand About Long COVID
Even mild COVID-19 is at least correlated with a startlingly wide spectrum of seemingly every illness. We need a much better taxonomy to address people’s suffering.
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Bettmann / Getty Warning Signs About the First Post-pandemic Winter
It may not be as bad as last year’s … but it certainly won’t be good.
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The Atlantic The Pandemic’s Legacy Is Already Clear
All of this will happen again.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty Long COVID Has Forced a Reckoning for One of Medicine’s Most Neglected Diseases
Only a couple dozen doctors specialize in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Now their knowledge could be crucial to treating millions more patients.
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Kevin Faingnaert for The Atlantic Did a Famous Doctor’s COVID Shot Make His Cancer Worse?
A lifelong promoter of vaccines suspects he might be the rare, unfortunate exception.
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Allen J. Schaben / Getty 11 COVID Questions People Still Have, Answered
What we know about Paxlovid, how to handle a positive test, and when to get a booster
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic The ‘End’ of COVID Is Still Far Worse Than We Imagined
Even now, the coronavirus is killing three times as many people as the flu.
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Santiago Felipe / Getty; The Atlantic Fauci Addresses ‘The Pandemic Is Over’
President Biden’s controversial remarks, Fauci says, are a matter of “semantics.”
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Getty Hundreds of Americans Will Die From COVID Today
Is this what normal now looks like?
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic; Getty Should Your Flu and COVID Shots Go in Different Arms?
Welcome to the two-vaccine conundrum.
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Mario Tama / Getty One of Long COVID’s Most Misunderstood Symptoms
Ed Yong on what makes brain fog so unforgiving
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The Atlantic One of Long COVID’s Worst Symptoms Is Also Its Most Misunderstood
Brain fog isn’t like a hangover or depression. It’s a disorder of executive function that makes basic cognitive tasks absurdly hard.
