Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
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Jason Lee / Reuters / Redux No Exit From Zero COVID for Xi Jinping
The death of a former leader, Jiang Zemin, is inconvenient for the Chinese Communist regime but unlikely to deter its crackdown on dissent.
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Kevin Frayer / Getty China’s Zero Tolerance for Xi’s COVID Restrictions
The popular defiance is a direct challenge to the Communist Party leader’s authority.
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Illustration by Alex Cochran The Pandemic Exposed the Inequality of American Motherhood
Rich and poor women had completely different experiences.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Pandemic Broke the Flu ... Again
COVID knocked flu, RSV, and other respiratory diseases out of whack. When will they be back to normal?
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Getty; Zuma Press, Inc. / Alamy; The Atlantic Inside the Mind of an Anti-Paxxer
Paxlovid can be a lifesaving treatment for COVID. Why do so many patients turn it down?
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Photograph by Alexis Joy Hagestad for The Atlantic The Science Writer Every Science Nerd Wants You to Read
A visit with David Quammen, who confronted in COVID a story that refused to stay at a safe distance
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Leah Nash / The Washington Post / Getty What Does It Mean to Care About COVID Anymore?
Mask smarter, not harder.
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The Atlantic Go Ahead, Joke About the Pandemic
The public-health power of humor on Black Twitter
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic Will We Get Omicron’d Again?
It’s been a year since Omicron changed everything. Experts say a repeat is unlikely, but not impossible.
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Getty; The Atlantic DeSantis’s COVID Gamble Paid Off
Florida’s governor turned his coronavirus policies into a parable of American freedom.
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TSPL / Camera Press / Redux What a ‘Tripledemic’ Means for Your Body
How many times will I get sick this winter?
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Luis Acosta / Getty; The Atlantic Annual COVID Shots Mean We Can Stop Counting
For most Americans, “how many” doesn’t matter anymore. “How recently” does.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Great Pandemic Hand-Washing Blooper
Should you wash your hands? Yes. Does it matter for respiratory viruses? Not as much as we once thought.
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Camilo Freedman / Getty The COVID Data That Are Actually Useful Now
Move over, case rates and hospitalizations. The next generation of COVID tracking is here.
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Salvatore Laporta / Kontrolab / Getty The Very Real Lessons America Has Learned From COVID
And the very real ones it has not
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MirageC / Getty The Masks We’ll Wear in the Next Pandemic
N95s are good. Some scientists want to do much better.
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Morteza Nikoubazl / NurPhoto / Getty Medium COVID Could Be the Most Dangerous COVID
After you’re infected, the first few months may pose the greatest risks.
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Getty A UV Lamp That’s Bad for COVID but Not for You
Researchers are testing lights that have the early potential to transform the pandemic.
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Getty; The Atlantic What Doctors Still Don’t Understand About Long COVID
Even mild COVID-19 is at least correlated with a startlingly wide spectrum of seemingly every illness. We need a much better taxonomy to address people’s suffering.
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Bettmann / Getty Warning Signs About the First Post-pandemic Winter
It may not be as bad as last year’s … but it certainly won’t be good.
