Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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Tyler Comrie / Getty; The Atlantic How Worried Should We Be About XBB.1.5?
Yet another new and highly transmissible subvariant of the coronavirus is taking over.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Inflated Risk of Vaccine-Induced Cardiac Arrest
Damar Hamlin’s collapse on Monday Night Football calls attention to a medical myth that will not die.
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Carolyn Drake / Magnum Partying Feels Different Now
Parties have always been about hope. After forgoing them for so long during the pandemic, that’s clearer than ever.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Photos Courtesy of … My Mother Just Died of COVID in Wuhan
She was one of millions left virtually defenseless by China’s sudden abandonment of its failing zero-COVID policy.
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Getty; The Atlantic People Are Fed Up With Rapid Tests
At-home swabbing still works just fine, but we can’t seem to escape false negatives. What gives?
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic How Many Republicans Died Because the GOP Turned Against Vaccines?
Party leaders are unquestionably complicit in the premature deaths of their own supporters.
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Getty; The Atlantic Should Everyone Be Masking Again?
’Tis the season to cover your nose and mouth.
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Cui Jun / VCG / Getty Nasal Vaccines Are Here
Now they’re being used in China. But do they work?
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty Consider Armadillo COVID
Animals could give us the virus—again.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty No One Wants Your Cold
How to know if you’re too sick to hang
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Spencer Platt / Getty Is COVID a Common Cold Yet?
Its symptoms have changed a lot.
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Wang Zhao / AFP / Getty Americans Should Not Be Tempted by China’s COVID Policies
Authoritarian competence might seem appealing for a time. But the costs are too high.
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The Atlantic; Jimmy Beunardeau / Hans Lucas / … Zero COVID’s Failure Is Xi’s Failure
Whatever happens with case counts in China now, one person owns them.
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Michelle Gustafson for The Washington Post / Getty It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Another COVID Surge
Once again, our pandemic numbers are creeping in the wrong direction.
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Getty; The Atlantic Haunted by the Ghost of 2019
Our obsession with going back to our pre-pandemic lives is keeping us from building a better future.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic COVID Science Is Moving Backwards
We’ve let the data slip away.
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Kevin Frayer / Getty China’s COVID Wave Is Coming
The world’s most populous nation is being forced onto a zero-COVID off-ramp.
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Hannah Yoon / NYT / Redux The Year Without Germs Changed Kids
Children who spent their formative years in the bleach-everything era will certainly have different microbiomes. The question is whether different means bad.
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Johannes Eisele / AFP / Getty This COVID Winter Will Be Different
But will it be better?
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Kevin Frayer / Getty How Many COVID Deaths Will Chinese Protesters Accept?
Strict zero-COVID policies have kept disease from spreading, but at enormous social cost. How far should they be rolled back?
