Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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Adam Maida The Plan That Could Give Us Our Lives Back
The U.S. has never had enough coronavirus tests. Now a group of epidemiologists, economists, and dreamers is plotting a new strategy to defeat the virus, even before a vaccine is found.
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Shutterstock / Paul Spella / The Atlantic College Football’s Great Unraveling
The pandemic is bringing the sport face-to-face with its deepest flaws.
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Peter Marlow / Magnum This Is What Happens When Society ‘Has to Function’
The Disaster Tourist, a grim satire of capitalism, resonates during a pandemic that has revealed the brutal calculus of “essential work.”
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Maja Hitij / Getty I Run a Tutoring Company. I Get Dozens of Calls a Day About Learning Pods.
This is what the scramble to teach from home looks like.
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The Atlantic How the Pandemic Revealed Britain’s National Illness
Boris Johnson has faced his share of blame for the country’s death count. But the British system was failing long before the coronavirus struck.
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Michael Gutsche / Alfred-Wegener-Institut A Pandemic Journey That Puts Odysseus to Shame
One scientist started in the Arctic Ocean and ended up crossing the Russia-Finland border on a folding bicycle procured in Germany.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters / The Atlantic Listen: This Episode Has Not Been Peer-Reviewed
Is the pandemic changing science?
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Millennium Images / Gallery Stock Dear Diary: This Is My Life in Quarantine
Sensing that they’re living through a historic moment, many people are journaling to create a keepsake of life during the pandemic.
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Miguel Schincariol / Getty Where the Pandemic Is Only Getting Worse
The crisis in the United States shouldn’t distract from the worsening situation elsewhere.
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Bruno Barbey / Magnum The Winter Will Be Worse
When socializing outside gets harder in much of the U.S., daily life will get more dismal, and the virus might spread even further.
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The Atlantic One Legacy of the Pandemic May Be Less Judgment of the Child-Free
The coronavirus could change lingering cultural assumptions about what makes for a full and happy life.
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The Atlantic Immunology Is Where Intuition Goes to Die
Which is too bad because we really need to understand how the immune system reacts to the coronavirus.
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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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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Listen: A Guide to Birding
A cheap, easy excuse to be in nature
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Dina Litovsky / Redux How the Pandemic Defeated America
A virus has brought the world’s most powerful country to its knees.
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David Ramos / Getty There Are Other Options Besides Reopening Schools
Alternative solutions to parents’ dilemma just require more time, money, and imagination.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP / The Atlantic Listen: The Tree Army
Senator Chris Coons discusses a Civilian Conservation Corps for the pandemic era.
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Millennium Images / Gallery Stock We Need to Talk About Ventilation
How is it that six months into a respiratory pandemic, we are still doing so little to mitigate airborne transmission?
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Horst Friedrichs / Anzenberger / Redux Will Kids Follow the New Pandemic Rules at School?
Students are generally capable of doing what public-health experts ask, but not all of them, not everything, and not all the time.
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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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