Is That Nostalgia You’re Feeling?
Missing the daily pleasures of pre-quarantine life doesn’t have to be a bad thing.
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Matt Dunham / AP Keep the Parks Open
Public green spaces are good for the immune system and the mind—and they can be rationed to allow for social distancing.
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The Atlantic Why Does the President Keep Pushing a Malaria Drug?
What is actually known about hydroxychloroquine, the medication that Trump is fixated on recommending for COVID-19
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Mladen Antonov / AFP / Getty Should You Wear a Mask?
James Hamblin and Katherine Wells discuss new CDC recommendations on the podcast Social Distance.
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What Doctors Are Afraid Of
At the forefront of the COVID-19 pandemic, health-care workers describe a new world of chaos, fear, and suffering.
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Social Distance: Jared Kushner and the Website That Never Was
What a broken promise reveals
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Social Distance: The New Etiquette of Procuring Food
What’s the least unethical way to eat during a pandemic?
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Victor J. Blue / Getty Everyone Thinks They’re Right About Masks
How the coronavirus travels through the air has become one of the most divisive debates in this pandemic.
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Aleksandra Michalska / Reuters An Ethicist on How to Make Impossible Decisions
Arthur Caplan, NYU’s chief medical ethicist, discusses the tough calls doctors have to make on how to ration care.
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Social Distance: How the Coronavirus Is Scrambling Our Politics
The pandemic meets the culture war.
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Steve Pfost / Newsday RM via Getty Private Labs Are Fueling a New Coronavirus Testing Crisis
Backlogs at private laboratories have ballooned, making it difficult to treat suffering patients and contain the pandemic.
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Three Scenarios for How This Ends
On a recent episode of Social Distance, Ed Yong joins to discuss how the coronavirus outbreak will play out in the United States.
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MARINA MUUN / Spectrum The Painful, Lonely Lives of Seniors With Autism
How America neglects older adults on the spectrum
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Antonio Masiello / Getty The Curve Is Not Flat Enough
Hospitals are poised to face the kind of life-and-death decisions that industrialized countries typically encounter only in times of war and natural disaster.
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The Visible Exhaustion of Doctors and Nurses Fighting the Coronavirus
Documenting the marks the pandemic is leaving on medical professionals in Italy
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Social Distance: Will $2 Trillion Be Enough?
Today, Congress passed the biggest stimulus package in history. It might not be the end of the government’s pandemic response.
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A Disturbing Look Inside an Italian Hospital
“Seeing people one step away from dying kills a little part of you.”
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Getty / The Atlantic The Child-Care Crisis Is Even Worse for Health-Care Workers
Medical professionals need to be at work more urgently than ever, but their child care has essentially evaporated. Eager (but fragile) networks of volunteers have stepped in to help.
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Ina Fassbender / AFP / Getty Amazon Is Struggling to Pay Workers in Quarantine
Big retailers have rolled out sick leave during the pandemic, but some workers describe a confusing process for getting paid.
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Social Distance: What Happens Next?
A dispatch from the near future
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Joan Wong How the Pandemic Will End
The U.S. may end up with the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the industrialized world. This is how it’s going to play out.
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