Coronavirus: COVID-19

Podcast: Is It Over?

Our pandemic podcast is ending, though the pandemic hasn’t ended around the world.

• June 11, 2021

The Fundamental Question of the Pandemic Is Shifting

We understand how this will end. But who bears the risk that remains?

• Ed Yong
• June 9, 2021

On Top of Everything Else, the Pandemic Messed With Our Morals

The traumas of the past year have left some people wrestling with an awful question: Am I still a good person?

• Jonathan Moens
• June 8, 2021

Coronavirus Variants Have Nowhere to Hide

Our tests will need frequent touch-ups to make sure that no mutations get past them.

• Katherine J. Wu
• June 7, 2021

Podcast: Breakthrough Infections and Lonely Puppies

Things are starting to look up, at least in the U.S., but we’re looking ahead at potential future worries.

• June 3, 2021

Podcast: It’s Time to Tango

Lots of your questions about the future after COVID-19 get answered, and one listener gives us a little history lesson.

• May 27, 2021

What Breakthrough Infections Can Tell Us

Post-vaccination infections reveal how effective vaccines are—and which variants are sneaking past our defenses.

• Katherine J. Wu
• May 27, 2021

COVID-19 Vaccine Makers Are Looking Beyond the Spike Protein

It’s time for more weapons in the shots-versus-virus arms race.

• Katherine J. Wu
• May 21, 2021

Podcast: Dealing With Post-pandemic Trauma

The Atlantic staff writer Ed Yong talks with James Hamblin and Maeve Higgins about the ways, large and small, in which we’ve all suffered.

• May 20, 2021

What Happens When Americans Can Finally Exhale

The pandemic’s mental wounds are still wide open.

• Ed Yong
• May 20, 2021

Podcast: Share the Vaccine ‘Recipe’

What difference could it make worldwide if the U.S. waived patents for vaccines?

• May 13, 2021

There’s a Perfect Number of Days to Work From Home, and It’s 2

The best job perk is self-determination.

• Amanda Mull
• May 10, 2021

The J&J Rescue Mission Starts With a Choice

The reputation of all COVID-19 vaccines hinges on improving perceptions of the Johnson & Johnson shot.

• Katherine J. Wu
• May 7, 2021

Podcast: Long-COVID Questions Answered

A long-COVID patient and an immunologist help us understand the mysterious condition.

• May 6, 2021

6 Questions for the Boss Who Wants You Back in Your Cubicle

Here’s how to find out if your workplace’s return-to-office plans are actually safe.

• Rachel Gutman
• May 3, 2021

A Year Without Germs

Months of exuberant hand-sanitizing and social isolation during the pandemic have changed our exposure to microbes, in ways good and bad.

• James Hamblin
• April 30, 2021

The Hot-Person Vaccine

The internet has decided that Pfizer is significantly cooler than Moderna—but why?

• Kaitlyn Tiffany
• April 30, 2021

Podcast: The Consequences of Vaccine Nationalism

“One country’s crisis is every country’s crisis.”

• April 29, 2021

Post-vaccination Inertia Is Real

Readjusting our ideas about what’s safe is going to take time.

• Katherine J. Wu
• April 29, 2021

The Pandemic Made Her Sick, Even Before She Caught COVID-19

Headaches, eye pain, nausea—her symptoms began last spring. No one knows exactly why, except that the pandemic is to blame.

• Katherine J. Wu
• April 27, 2021