Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
Some tips for how to be a good sick person in the COVID era, whatever is ailing you
For the first time, COVID vaccines are getting an update in the U.S. But Americans still need to be persuaded to take them.
In the face of government inaction, the country’s best chance at keeping the crisis from spiraling relies on everyone to keep caring.
If the virus finds a new animal host, it could settle in for the long run—and cause more outbreaks in the future.
A string of negatives can still presage a clear-as-day positive.
COVID vaccines for infants and toddlers are stalling and stumbling even before they’ve left the gate.
Kids are at risk of severe COVID outcomes—and immunity from infection isn’t enough.
Images from the past few weeks of lockdown, and early signs of Shanghai’s reopening
Why violence demands not just policy solutions, but public-health ones
Our original-recipe shots are holding up against new variants. But we may need to improve them, and soon.
A new viral outbreak is testing whether the world has learned anything from COVID.
As COVID numbers tick up, hospitals are supposed to be ready to jump in as needed. Only, they never really had a reprieve.
Experts are expected to choose a vaccine recipe for the fall, when Omicron may or may not still be the globe’s dominant variant.
Bill Gates has a strategy to save the world from the next infectious threat. He’s not the first.
Early anecdotes about Paxlovid’s effects on long COVID are intriguing, but no one’s testing them in clinical trials yet.
“I imagine this is what grapefruit juice mixed with soap would taste like.”
Compared with what the U.S. saw in January, the current rise in cases so far looks pretty chill. Is it, though?
With time and effort, we can build enough protection to blunt surges—but herd immunity remains out of reach.
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.
Your pandemic reflections