What a Doctor Learns From Watching You on Video Chat
Patients and doctors are rediscovering the unexpected virtues and hidden pitfalls of homebound care.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters / The Atlantic Listen: This Episode Has Not Been Peer-Reviewed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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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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Theo Whitcomb Sixty-Thousand Evictions in the Name of Environmentalism
The Indian state of Tamil Nadu is relocating whole slums to help restore polluted rivers. Is it doing more harm than good?
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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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Julian Montague Paging Dr. Hamblin: My Grandma Is Angry I Won’t Take Her to the Salon
Caregivers can’t deny seniors their agency, even during this pandemic.
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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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Jerome Labouyrie / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Listen: ‘The Most Magical Place on Earth’
Inside the quasi-authoritarian city-state in Florida where people are happily complying with the rules
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters / The Atlantic Listen: How Immunity Works
Zombies, villagers, and Navy SEALs. An immunologist explains the immune system.
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Undark Americans Are Spending Billions on Unnecessary Dental Treatments
The evidence that braces make you healthier is shaky at best.
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The Atlantic A Vaccine Reality Check
So much hope is riding on a breakthrough, but a vaccine is only the beginning of the end.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Listen: $600 a Week
A fiscal cliff is coming.
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Julian Montague Paging Dr. Hamblin: Is a Bandanna a Mask?
The value of face coverings varies wildly. Much of it comes down to how we use and maintain them.
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Peter Marlow / Magnum America’s Inescapable Offices
Workers who have already returned to their cubicle report days full of anxiety, masks, and sanitation shaming.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Listen: A New Definition of ‘Clean’
The upsides and downsides of sterilizing ourselves
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Mark Ralston / AFP / Getty A Mental-Health Crisis Is Burning Across the American West
Each fire season can compound the trauma of the one before it.
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Shutterstock / Pavel Metluk / The Atlantic Listen: CDC Data Go Dark
The White House mandated that hospitals stop sending data to the CDC. Why?
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