Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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The Atlantic So, Have You Heard About Monkeypox?
A new viral outbreak is testing whether the world has learned anything from COVID.
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Victor J. Blue / The New York Times … What COVID Hospitalization Numbers Are Missing
As COVID numbers tick up, hospitals are supposed to be ready to jump in as needed. Only, they never really had a reprieve.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty The U.S. Is About to Make a Big Gamble on Our Next COVID Winter
Experts are expected to choose a vaccine recipe for the fall, when Omicron may or may not still be the globe’s dominant variant.
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Evan Agostini / Invision / AP Can Anyone Out-Plan a Pandemic?
Bill Gates has a strategy to save the world from the next infectious threat. He’s not the first.
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Getty; Shuran Huang / The New York Times … The Promising Treatment for Long COVID We’re Not Even Trying
Early anecdotes about Paxlovid’s effects on long COVID are intriguing, but no one’s testing them in clinical trials yet.
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Lambert / Getty; The Atlantic Paxlovid Mouth Is Real—And Gross
“I imagine this is what grapefruit juice mixed with soap would taste like.”
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Getty ; The Atlantic ‘Better Than Omicron’ Is Still Pretty Bad
Compared with what the U.S. saw in January, the current rise in cases so far looks pretty chill. Is it, though?
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The Atlantic America Is Starting to See What COVID Immunity Really Looks Like
With time and effort, we can build enough protection to blunt surges—but herd immunity remains out of reach.
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Nina Westervelt / Bloomberg / Getty Have We Already Ruined Our Next COVID Summer?
A lot has changed since last year’s pre-Delta lull, but America can still reclaim some coronavirus-free chill—if it decides to commit.
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Two Long Years
Your pandemic reflections
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Aaron Turner for The Atlantic The Final Pandemic Betrayal
Millions of people are still mourning loved ones lost to COVID, their grief intensified, prolonged, and even denied by the politics of the pandemic.
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Leemage / Corbis / Getty These Dreadful Days
If it feels like the vibe shifted to existential despair, you’re not alone. But it won’t always be this way.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic; Getty America Created Its Own Booster Problems
Months of confusing messaging, piled onto existing inequities, kneecapped America’s booster campaign before it had really started.
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Hector Retamal / AFP / Getty Two Weeks of COVID Lockdown in Shanghai
Millions of residents have been confined to their homes for weeks as Chinese authorities have taken a zero-tolerance approach to COVID-19.
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The Atlantic America Is Staring Down Its First So What? Wave
The United States could be in for a double whammy: a surge it cares to neither measure nor respond to.
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David Ryder / Getty Why Kids’ COVID-Vaccine Results Don’t Look Like Adults’
After a stellar run in adult and teen trials, the vaccines are now trying to contend with Omicron, and the numbers show it.
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Mark Peterson / Redux America Is About to Test How Long ‘Normal’ Can Hold
Whenever it arrives, the next surge could put the country’s tolerance for disease and death in full relief.
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Jessica Leigh / The Times / AP America’s Flu-Shot Problem Is Also Its Next COVID-Shot Problem
The successes and failures of annual flu-shot campaigns hold lessons for the future of COVID vaccines.
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Gallery Stock; Getty America Is Zooming Through the Pandemic Panic-Neglect Cycle
All epidemics trigger the same Sisyphean cycle of panic and neglect. Even so, that cycle isn’t meant to spin this quickly.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty A New Strategy for Staying One Step Ahead of the Virus
We’re tracking how the virus is changing over time. Why not monitor immunity too?
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