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John Moore / Getty The Mutated Virus Is a Ticking Time Bomb
There is much we don’t know about the new COVID-19 variant—but everything we know so far suggests a huge danger.
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Emin Ozmen / Magnum Hang On for 3 More Months
Some simple advice for anyone contemplating a holiday gathering: Wait until March.
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Win McNamee / Getty ‘This Must Be Your First’
Acting as if Trump is trying to stage a coup is the best way to ensure he won’t.
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John Moore / Getty It’s Time to Hunker Down
A devastating surge is here. Unless Americans act aggressively, it will get much larger, very quickly.
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Scott Olson / Getty America’s Next Authoritarian Will Be Much More Competent
Trump was ineffective and easily beaten. A future strongman won’t be.
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Sakis Mitrolidis / AFP / Getty This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic
It’s not R.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Pandemic Is No Excuse to Surveil Students
Trying to do so is all but useless.
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Millennium Images / Gallery Stock We Need to Talk About Ventilation
How is it that six months into a respiratory pandemic, we are still doing so little to mitigate airborne transmission?
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Remko de Waal / Hollandse Hoogte / Redux The Tragic Loss of Coronavirus Patients’ Final Words
It takes a special kind of inattention to human suffering to not notice how unfortunate it is that people have been left to face death alone.
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Dan Kitwood / Getty Scolding Beachgoers Isn’t Helping
People complain that going to the shore is a careless act during a pandemic, but the science so far suggests otherwise.
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Kate Sterlin Do Protests Even Work?
It sometimes takes decades to find out.
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Dominick Williams I Can’t Breathe: Braving Tear Gas in a Pandemic
How a counterproductive crowd-control tactic could make the outbreak worse
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Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Trump Is Doing All of This for Zuckerberg
The new executive order targeting social-media companies isn’t really about Twitter.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic This Social-Media Mob Was Good
The online rage at Amy Cooper could prove to be a powerful deterrent.
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Dale De La Rey / Getty How Hong Kong Did It
With the government flailing, the city’s citizens decided to organize their own coronavirus response.
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Spencer Platt/Getty The Real Reason to Wear a Mask
Much of the confusion around masks stems from the conflation of two very different uses.
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Jonathan Ernst/Reuters The WHO Shouldn’t Be a Plaything for Great Powers
Trump’s defunding ploy will only make the organization’s problems worse.
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Matt Dunham / AP Keep the Parks Open
Public green spaces are good for the immune system and the mind—and they can be rationed to allow for social distancing.
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Tom Brenner / Reuters Don’t Believe the COVID-19 Models
That’s not what they’re for.
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Christophe Ena / AP It Wasn’t Just Trump Who Got It Wrong
America’s coronavirus response failed because we didn’t understand the complexity of the problem.
