Coronavirus: COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
The Atlantic’s coverage of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
What I saw inside the government’s response to COVID-19
Joe Biden is paying the price for America’s unprocessed COVID grief.
“Stand six feet apart” signs are outdated, ignored, and everywhere.
The diseases are nowhere near the same.
How far can the state go before a serious outbreak hits?
Striving for fitness is usually healing. But for most people with long COVID, it can be toxic.
New cases seem to be less common nowadays, but that change is not as comforting as it sounds.
Many of the people most at risk of dying aren’t getting COVID shots.
Facing down simultaneous surges of flu, COVID, and RSV, most Americans still aren’t getting the vaccines that could temper the worst effects.
Sick season will be worse from now on.
Until we start to see the longer-term consequences of missed shots
The simplest way to think about them—everyone should just get one—is arguably the best.
With universal masking mandates almost entirely gone, hospitals now have to decide when—or if—to bring requirements back.
The most effective way to increase vaccine uptake is to make getting shots easy. So why aren’t we doing that?
A mid-year wave might be brewing for the fourth year in a row. Will it always be like this?
Their saliva is a secret weapon.
“Lab leak” has too many meanings.
A major revelation about researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology emerged this week. We still can’t say we’re any closer to the truth.
This year’s might include XBB.1 and … perhaps no other strain.
The recent fight over wet-market raccoon dogs underscores just how much prior beliefs can affect interpretation.