You’ll Probably Never Know If You Had the Coronavirus in January
So far, all available evidence suggests that few Americans were infected in the first weeks of the year. It would be next to impossible to find out who they were.
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Klara Auerbach / The Atlantic The Big Story: Making Sense of the Pandemic
Ed Yong and Ross Andersen discuss the challenges of reporting on COVID-19, live at 2 p.m. ET today.
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Listen: Don’t Worry About a ‘New Strain’
At least not yet.
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Adam Parata I Was Depressed Before All of This. Now What?
Even in my 6,000-person town, sadness about the pandemic is everywhere. It’s been hard to cope.
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Mike Blake / Reuters / The Atlantic Listen: High Risk
What it’s like to live through the pandemic with a cancer diagnosis
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Listen: So the Economy Is a Disaster
And it’s probably going to get worse.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Problem With Stories About Dangerous Coronavirus Mutations
There’s no clear evidence that the pandemic virus has evolved into significantly different forms—and there probably won’t be for months.
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Andrew Savulich / AP / The Atlantic Listen: Things Can Change in an Instant
Lessons from the front lines of the AIDS epidemic
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Caitlin Flanagan / The Atlantic I Thought Stage IV Cancer Was Bad Enough
Then came a pandemic during the presidency of Donald Trump.
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Simoul Alva Work From Home Is Here to Stay
The future of jobs after the pandemic is a blurry mix of work, life, pajamas, and Zoom.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Listen: The Georgia Experiment
Who does the state’s reopening serve?
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Getty / The Atlantic Should You Get an Antibody Test?
A user’s guide to the immune system
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Listen: You Are Worthy of Sleep
Even in a pandemic.
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moodboard / Getty / Paul Spella / The ... The Coronavirus Conspiracy Boom
Nearly a third of the people we polled believe that the virus was manufactured on purpose. Why?
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Mike Blake / Reuters / The Atlantic Listen: Is Human Touch Necessary?
And other questions from listeners, answered
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Dustin Chambers / Bloomberg via Getty Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice
The state is about to find out how many people need to lose their lives to shore up the economy.
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Joan Wong Why the Coronavirus Is So Confusing
A guide to making sense of a problem that is now too big for any one person to fully comprehend
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Listen: Will the Restaurants Come Back?
What the future of your neighborhood storefront means for American cities
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Listen: How Much Does It Cost to Get COVID-19?
Howard Forman, a Yale professor of public health and economics, joins the podcast Social Distance to explain the economics of American health care.
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Hetherington / IWM / Magnum Photos The Rwandans Offering Themselves as Mosquito Bait
In the fight against malaria, sometimes bed nets and pesticides just aren’t enough.
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Bloomberg / Getty / The Atlantic Why It’s Important Not to Drink Bleach
Doctors and nurses are risking their lives and dying. People are out of work and struggling to make rent. The president of the United States is suggesting injecting disinfectant.
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