So, What Can We Do Now?
A guide to staying safe this summer
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Listen: It’s a Small World Health Organization
What happens if the United States pulls out of the WHO during the pandemic?
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Lauren Tamaki Behind the Byline With Amanda Mull
In our new series, meet Atlantic staffers to learn more about who they are and how they approach their work.
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gblue / Getty / NIH / The Atlantic Small Towns Won’t Know They’re Infected Until It’s Too Late
The demise of local news is a pandemic emergency.
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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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Stephane de Sakutin / Getty We’ll Be Wearing Things on Our Faces for a Long Time
You can choose between a mask and a face shield, but you can’t choose nothing.
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters / The Atlantic Listen: Is There a Vaccine Shortcut?
Researchers could deliberately expose people to the coronavirus to speed up the development of a vaccine. Is it worth it?
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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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Diana Markosian / Magnum Pools Will Test the Limits of Social Distancing
Yes, you’ll have to stay six feet apart even when you’re in the water.
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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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Shutterstock / Reuters Listen: Am I Depressed?
Or is the world just depressing?
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Listen: The Comforting Appeal of Conspiracy Theories
Why false narratives can sometimes outrun facts
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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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Eric Thayer / Getty The Horror of the Coronavirus Data Lag
Some reopening states are already claiming victory over the coronavirus. But the real consequences won’t be clear for weeks.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Listen: You Should Have an Advance Directive
It’s hard to talk about end-of-life care. You should do it anyway.
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Klara Auerbach / The Atlantic The Big Story: Battling Cancer During a Pandemic
Caitlin Flanagan and Ross Andersen discuss managing Stage IV cancer during the COVID-19 outbreak, live at 2:30 p.m. ET today.
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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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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Listen: The Racial Contract
The same forces that allow a black man’s killers to walk free have shaped the country’s response to the pandemic.
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Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic Why Your Shrink Wasn’t Offering Virtual Therapy Until Now
Did it need to take a pandemic to let us Zoom with our therapist in our PJs?
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ASIA PIETRZYK Americans Have Baked All the Flour Away
The pandemic is reintroducing the nation to its kitchens.
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Toby Melville / Reuters / The Atlantic Listen: Will You Merge Bubbles With Me?
A guide to dating and relationships during the pandemic
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