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Epidemics and Pandemics

The Atlantic Daily: 10 Must-Read Stories of 2020

December 28, 2020

What Congress Could Do to Keep More College Students Enrolled

Sara Goldrick-Rab

December 27, 2020

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My Emergency Room Is Full of Patients No Vaccine Can Help

December 26, 2020

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What I Have Seen Running the FacesOfCOVID Twitter Feed

December 25, 2020

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The Pandemic Is Crashing Through the South and the West

The COVID Tracking Project

December 24, 2020

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Coronavirus: COVID-19

A Pandemic Pregnancy Is a More Dangerous Pregnancy

Katharine Gammon

December 24, 2020

A person touched their exposed, pregnant belly with both hands

The Last Days of Loneliness

December 24, 2020

Two nursing-home residents look out a window.

December Is Now the Deadliest Month of the Pandemic

December 23, 2020

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The Atlantic Daily: 3 Things to Know About COVID-19

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

December 22, 2020

The Atlantic Daily

The Virus Is Showing Black People What They Knew All Along

December 22, 2020

A funeral procession in New Jersey. A black man wearing a mask is pushing a casket.

California Has Lost Control

December 21, 2020

Registered nurse Carmen Verano wipes her CAPR helmet after attending a Covid-19 patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center in Tarzana, California on December 18, 2020.

The Mysterious Link Between COVID-19 and Sleep

December 21, 2020

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Anti-vaxxers Think This Is Their Moment

December 20, 2020

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Why British Kids Went Back to School, and American Kids Did Not

December 19, 2020

Schoolchildren in England

What the Vaccine’s Side Effects Feel Like

December 18, 2020

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Social Distance

Podcast: The Vaccine Is Here! What Now?

December 18, 2020

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A Day of Deaths 25 Percent Higher Than Spring’s Worst

The COVID Tracking Project

December 17, 2020

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The Atlantic Daily: Four December Don’ts

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

December 17, 2020

The Terrible Déjà Vu of COVID-19’s Winter Surge

December 17, 2020

COVID-19 emptied New Orleans' streets.

Hang On for 3 More Months

December 17, 2020

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The Atlantic Daily: Ron Klain Saw It Coming

Jeffrey Goldberg

December 16, 2020

The Year We Lost

December 15, 2020

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The Atlantic Daily: How Science Beat the Virus

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

December 14, 2020

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Social Distance

Listen: Americans Are Going Hungry

December 14, 2020

Cars waiting for food

The Atlantic’s January/February Cover Story

December 14, 2020

How Science Beat the Virus

January/February 2021 Issue

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How to Build Trust in the Vaccines

December 12, 2020

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The Atlantic Daily: Welcome to Vaccine Purgatory

Caroline Mimbs Nyce and Isabel Fattal

December 11, 2020

The Next 6 Months Will Be Vaccine Purgatory

December 11, 2020

Illustrations of a vaccine syringe

American Elites Still Don’t Understand How COVID-19 Works

December 11, 2020

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This Is Only Going to Get Worse

The COVID Tracking Project

December 10, 2020

The Vaccine Is Here. Now for the Hard Part.

December 10, 2020

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One Day, 3,000 Deaths

Sarah Laskow and Alexis C. Madrigal

December 9, 2020

Medical staff push a stretcher with a deceased patient into a car outside of a COVID-19 intensive-care unit in Houston, Texas.

The Atlantic Daily: America’s Only Real Quarantine

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

December 9, 2020

The Vaccine Is Not Coming Soon Enough for Nursing Homes

The COVID Tracking Project

December 9, 2020

Ask Dr. Hamblin

Paging Dr. Hamblin: I Want to Give People Cookies

December 9, 2020

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