What You Need to Know About the Coronavirus
The Atlantic’s guide to understanding COVID-19
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic A Hidden COVID-19 Risk Factor: Your Boss
America’s flawed approach to sick leave is making the pandemic worse.
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Getty / The Atlantic So, What Can We Do Now?
A guide to staying safe this summer
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The Atlantic All the President’s Lies About the Coronavirus
An unfinished compendium of Trump’s overwhelming dishonesty during a national emergency
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Adam Maida We Don’t Even Have a COVID-19 Vaccine, and Yet the Conspiracies Are Here
Even as vaccines for the disease are being held up as the last hope for a return to normalcy, misinformation about them is spreading.
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Namrata Gosavi Is Everyone Depressed?
Suddenly, many people meet the criteria for clinical depression. Doctors are scrambling to determine who needs urgent intervention, and who is simply the new normal.
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Piotr Malecki / Panos Pictures / Redux Social Distancing Is Not Enough
We will need a comprehensive strategy to reduce the sort of interactions that can lead to more infections.
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Getty / The Atlantic ‘How Could the CDC Make That Mistake?’
The government’s disease-fighting agency is conflating viral and antibody tests, compromising a few crucial metrics that governors depend on to reopen their economies. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, and other states are doing the same.
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Joan Wong America’s Patchwork Pandemic Is Fraying Even Further
The coronavirus is coursing through different parts of the U.S. in different ways, making the crisis harder to predict, control, or understand.
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The Atlantic State and Federal Data on COVID-19 Testing Don’t Match Up
The CDC has quietly started releasing nationwide numbers. But they contradict what states themselves are reporting.
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Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic Why the Coronavirus Hits Kids and Adults So Differently
COVID-19 is much less severe in children, and it could have to do with a child’s still-developing immune system.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Coming Mental-Health Crisis
Congress must rethink the American approach to mental-health care during the pandemic.
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Getty / The Atlantic How Virginia Juked Its COVID-19 Data
The state is combining results from viral and antibody tests in the same statistic. This threatens to confound America’s understanding of the pandemic.
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The Atlantic If Someone Shares the ‘Plandemic’ Video, How Should You Respond?
Experts provide scripts to help you push back as effectively as possible.
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The Atlantic There’s One Big Reason the U.S. Economy Can’t Reopen
The country faces the same problem today that it did two months ago: There are not enough tests to contain the virus.
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Carlos Becerra / Getty Venezuela’s Coronavirus Crisis Is Different
The pandemic has hit the developed world hard. How will it affect countries with fewer resources?
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Medical Research Council/The Atlantic ‘COVID-19 Is a Delirium Factory’
In a new documentary from The Atlantic, coronavirus survivors describe frightening experiences in the intensive-care unit.
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Natalia Ramos The Worst Situation Imaginable for Family Violence
All over the United States, adults and children have been quarantined for weeks with people who hurt them.
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The Atlantic You’ll Probably Never Know If You Had the Coronavirus in January
So far, all available evidence suggests that few Americans were infected in the first weeks of the year. It would be next to impossible to find out who they were.
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Jeff Roberson / AP Their States Are in Crisis. They’re Declaring Victory Anyway.
For the Republican governors reopening their economies, “bad news may be around the corner.”
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Michael Nagle / Redux A Guide to Staying Safe as States Reopen
Can I eat at a restaurant? Can I go shopping? Can I hug my friends again? Experts weigh in.
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