Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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The Atlantic The Latest COVID Variants Have a Surprising Feature in Common
Over and over again, genetic mutations are preventing a protein once thought to be key to the virus’s success from being expressed.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Sergii Iaremenko / … 23 Pandemic Decisions That Actually Went Right
A lot went wrong with COVID, but the responses that worked could help guide us in future pandemics.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Only the Emergency Has Ended
The pandemic and the need to respond remain.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Marcos del Mazo … Will COVID’s Spring Lull Last?
Things look calm right now. They may even stay that way—but we won’t know for sure for a good long while.
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Photo-illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic. Source: … Long-Haulers Are Trying to Define Themselves
Disability can be a scary word for many people with long COVID.
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Illustration by Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty Long COVID Is Being Erased—Again
What was once outright denial has morphed into a subtler dismissal.
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Matt Chase / The Atlantic. Source: Getty. To Understand Anti-vaxxers, Consider Aristotle
Science denialism reaches back centuries.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty A Major Clue to COVID’s Origins Is Just Out of Reach
A key set of data could shore up the case for a purely animal origin. So why aren’t scientists sharing it?
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Alphotographic / Getty The Strongest Evidence Yet That an Animal Started the Pandemic
A new analysis of genetic samples from China appears to link the pandemic’s origin to raccoon dogs.
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Sean Gallup / Getty The Next Stage of COVID Is Starting Now
What happens when everyone first gets immunity to the coronavirus as a very young kid?
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Kyodo News / Getty The Lab Leak Will Haunt Us Forever
Each new revelation is a reminder of how little is actually known.
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Getty: The Atlantic The Good News About Vaccine Hesitancy
America can’t shake the feeling that vaccination rates are about to plummet. The facts say otherwise.
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Gabby Jones / Redux Outdoor Dining Is Doomed
“Streeteries” are sitting empty this winter.
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Getty; The Atlantic Whatever Happened to Toilet Plumes?
Beware the lidless toilet, even if one won’t give you COVID-19.
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Harold M. Lambert / Lambert / Getty Don’t Fear the Handshake
The gesture has survived plenty of outbreaks before COVID, and it will almost certainly outlast more to come.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Case for ‘Kraken’
Any name for the coronavirus is better than a jumble of letters and numbers.
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Getty; The Atlantic Are Our Immune Systems Stuck in 2020?
You never forget your first time with SARS-CoV-2.
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Getty; The Atlantic Maybe Don’t Unleash the Kraken
The ways we’re talking about the coronavirus are only getting weirder.
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Julien De Rosa / AFP / Getty I’m Sorry, but This COVID Policy Is Ridiculous
The recent attempt to limit the spread of disease from China makes no sense at all.
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Ben Stanstall / Afp / Getty; Megan Briggs … Damar Hamlin’s Tragedy, Anti-vaxxers’ Gold
Opportunists used the cardiac arrest of an NFL player to promote deadly disinformation.
