Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty A Major Clue to COVID’s Origins Is Just Out of Reach
A key set of data could shore up the case for a purely animal origin. So why aren’t scientists sharing it?
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Alphotographic / Getty The Strongest Evidence Yet That an Animal Started the Pandemic
A new analysis of genetic samples from China appears to link the pandemic’s origin to raccoon dogs.
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Sean Gallup / Getty The Next Stage of COVID Is Starting Now
What happens when everyone first gets immunity to the coronavirus as a very young kid?
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Kyodo News / Getty The Lab Leak Will Haunt Us Forever
Each new revelation is a reminder of how little is actually known.
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Getty: The Atlantic The Good News About Vaccine Hesitancy
America can’t shake the feeling that vaccination rates are about to plummet. The facts say otherwise.
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Gabby Jones / Redux Outdoor Dining Is Doomed
“Streeteries” are sitting empty this winter.
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Getty; The Atlantic Whatever Happened to Toilet Plumes?
Beware the lidless toilet, even if one won’t give you COVID-19.
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Harold M. Lambert / Lambert / Getty Don’t Fear the Handshake
The gesture has survived plenty of outbreaks before COVID, and it will almost certainly outlast more to come.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Case for ‘Kraken’
Any name for the coronavirus is better than a jumble of letters and numbers.
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Getty; The Atlantic Are Our Immune Systems Stuck in 2020?
You never forget your first time with SARS-CoV-2.
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Getty; The Atlantic Maybe Don’t Unleash the Kraken
The ways we’re talking about the coronavirus are only getting weirder.
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Julien De Rosa / AFP / Getty I’m Sorry, but This COVID Policy Is Ridiculous
The recent attempt to limit the spread of disease from China makes no sense at all.
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Ben Stanstall / Afp / Getty; Megan Briggs … Damar Hamlin’s Tragedy, Anti-vaxxers’ Gold
Opportunists used the cardiac arrest of an NFL player to promote deadly disinformation.
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Tyler Comrie / Getty; The Atlantic How Worried Should We Be About XBB.1.5?
Yet another new and highly transmissible subvariant of the coronavirus is taking over.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Inflated Risk of Vaccine-Induced Cardiac Arrest
Damar Hamlin’s collapse on Monday Night Football calls attention to a medical myth that will not die.
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Carolyn Drake / Magnum Partying Feels Different Now
Parties have always been about hope. After forgoing them for so long during the pandemic, that’s clearer than ever.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Photos Courtesy of … My Mother Just Died of COVID in Wuhan
She was one of millions left virtually defenseless by China’s sudden abandonment of its failing zero-COVID policy.
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Getty; The Atlantic People Are Fed Up With Rapid Tests
At-home swabbing still works just fine, but we can’t seem to escape false negatives. What gives?
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic How Many Republicans Died Because the GOP Turned Against Vaccines?
Party leaders are unquestionably complicit in the premature deaths of their own supporters.
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Getty; The Atlantic Should Everyone Be Masking Again?
’Tis the season to cover your nose and mouth.
