Coronavirus

The pandemic did something strange to our sense of time. For Ruth Ogden, lockdown spent confined to her 3-bedroom duplex in Manchester, England, with a newborn and two boys home from school, "was like climbing a mountain that never ended.

At-home swabbing still works just fine, but we can’t seem to escape false negatives. What gives? Max Hamilton found out that his roommate had been exposed to the coronavirus shortly after Thanksgiving. The dread set in, and then, so did her symptoms.

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Stand-out stories that help make sense of the coronavirus pandemic, curated by science journalist Ed Yong.

When Rebel ran away, my friend set up a search party to look for him in Sanjay Van, the sprawling forest in India’s capital and a place full of hazards for the missing: scorching temperatures and scarce water, sharp-fanged golden jackals, and marauding gangs of pariah dogs.

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Roughly 16 million Americans are living with long COVID, but many are not getting the right medical care. One way to improve the system is by letting patients lead.

Dive into Ed Yong’s stellar journalism with this collection of pandemic coverage for *The Atlantic*.

Earlier this month, at least ten people were killed after a fire broke out in an apartment building in the Xinjiang region of western China.

Across China, rare mass protests have grown against the country’s stringent zero-COVID pandemic protocols, with demonstrators in numerous cities taking to the streets to express their frustrations.

When Ram Yadav fled India’s strict countrywide lockdown imposed in March 2020, he was one of the lucky ones, managing to hitch rides from Delhi on trucks going in the direction of his village near Kanpur, 400km (250 miles) away.

The most unforgettable first-person essays and on-the-ground reports that told the story of coronavirus in 2020.

In early 2021, Nick Wilson was feeling hopeful. For months, New Zealand had been reporting zero or just a few daily cases of COVID-19.

It seems remarkable that anyone could. The virus has swept the world since it emerged in China nearly three years ago. Fresh variants have become better and better at infecting us. Even vaccines make Covid milder rather than being an impenetrable shield.

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