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America’s COVID Rules Are a Dumpster Fire

Katherine J. Wu

January 6, 2022

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Do Your Genes Know What’s Making You Sick?

January 6, 2022

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The Atlantic Daily: Omicron Is Scrambling Our COVID Best Practices

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

January 5, 2022

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Should I Just Get Omicron Over With?

Katherine J. Wu

January 5, 2022

a woman uses a coronavirus test

Omicron and the Return to Normalcy

Conor Friedersdorf

January 5, 2022

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The Atlantic Daily: The Wrong People Are Hoarding COVID Tests

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

January 3, 2022

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Stop Wasting COVID Tests, People

January 3, 2022

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The Atlantic Daily: What COVID Could Look Like One Year From Now

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

December 31, 2021

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Our Relationship With COVID Vaccines Is Just Getting Started

Katherine J. Wu

December 29, 2021

A photo collage of an arm covered in Band-Aids

Omicron Is Our Past Pandemic Mistakes on Fast-Forward

Katherine J. Wu, Ed Yong, and Sarah Zhang

December 23, 2021

A red coronavirus keeps replacing itself over and over again.

Omicron Is the Beginning of the End

December 22, 2021

Three abstract shapes. The first is a transparent burnt-orange circle over brushstrokes that seem to resemble the coronavirus. The second is half-circle over brushstrokes. And the third is one-third of a circle over brushstrokes.

Fauci on What COVID Could Look Like One Year From Now

December 21, 2021

Omicron Will Overwhelm America’s Emergency Rooms

December 21, 2021

A doctor wearing personal protective equipment

The COVID Externalities Have Changed

December 21, 2021

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Sports Leagues Are Showing Us Just How Bad Omicron Could Get

December 20, 2021

Football helmets and coronavirus particles

The Atlantic Daily: What Rapid Tests Miss

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

December 20, 2021

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How Long Does Omicron Take to Make You Sick?

Katherine J. Wu

December 20, 2021

Coronavirus particles with swabs protruding out

We Know Enough About Omicron to Know That We’re in Trouble

December 17, 2021

Photo of people waiting in line at a COVID-19 testing site in Times Square, New York

Late Stage Covid

December 17, 2021

surgical mask with greenery

‘No, Like, Everyone Has COVID Right Now’

Kaitlyn Tiffany

December 17, 2021

New York City's Empire State Building, with a coronavirus-shaped sun behind it

I Canceled My Birthday Party Because of Omicron

December 17, 2021

Virus particles appear in a plume of smoke coming out of a birthday candle.

The Death Toll Says It All

Céline Gounder

December 16, 2021

A woman mourns over a casket at a funeral of a victim of COVID-19.

The Case for Industrial Food

Conor Friedersdorf

December 15, 2021

Farmers work in a dome-shaped hydroponic lettuce factory.

Don’t Be Surprised When You Get Omicron

December 15, 2021

An image of a circle with viral particles.

A Guide to Mixed-Vaccination-Status Holidays

Lora Strum and Rachel Gutman-Wei

December 15, 2021

A black-and-white photo of a family sitting down for a holiday dinner, overlaid with red coronavirus particles

I’m Starting to Give Up on Post-pandemic Life

December 14, 2021

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800,000 Deaths

December 14, 2021

People visit the 'In America: Remember' public art installation near the Washington Monument in September 2021. The installation commemorates all the Americans who have died from COVID-19. It includes more than 650,000 small plastic flags.

T Cells Might Be Our Bodies’ Best Shot Against Omicron

Katherine J. Wu

December 14, 2021

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Where I Live, No One Cares About COVID

Matthew Walther

December 13, 2021

Signs requiring face masks and COVID-19 protocols on a restaurant window in Plymouth, Michigan

Gen Z Is Done With the Pandemic

December 13, 2021

Young people dancing at Trans-Pecos, an all-ages venue in Bushwick, Brooklyn

COVID Has Broken the Economy

December 10, 2021

A man sitting at a cubicle among many boxes

Omicron’s Explosive Growth Is a Warning Sign

December 8, 2021

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Omicron Has Created a Whole New Booster Logic

Katherine J. Wu

December 8, 2021

Bottles of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine

Why Are We Still Isolating Vaccinated People for 10 Days?

Katherine J. Wu

December 7, 2021

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We’re Not at Endemicity Yet

December 6, 2021

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Will This Pandemic Ever Be Over?

Molly Jong-Fast

December 3, 2021