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Go Nakamura / Getty The Worst Day of the Pandemic Since May
COVID-19 hospitalizations are now at an all-time high.
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Callaghan O'Hare / The New York Times / ... A Dreadful New Peak for the American Pandemic
The country recorded more than 100,000 coronavirus cases on Wednesday—the highest single-day total since the pandemic began.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Why Trump’s Rapid-Testing Plan Worries Scientists
Experts were already divided on the right way to deploy new coronavirus tests. Then the White House barged ahead.
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Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Now What?
The president’s COVID-19 diagnosis raises a number of questions about when the president was infected and how many other people in the White House might be sick.
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Mandel Ngan / Getty Fauci to a Meddling HHS Official: ‘Take a Hike’
The nation’s top public-health expert addresses political interference in the COVID-19 response, but urges Americans to focus on the winter ahead.
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Yulia Reznikov / Getty / COVID Tracking Project ... The Fog of the Pandemic Is Returning
Millions of coronavirus tests may be happening without their results being made public.
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Getty / The Atlantic A New Era of Coronavirus Testing Is About to Begin
A newly authorized test promises to double America’s monthly testing capacity, thanks in part to a huge purchase by the Trump administration. Can the test deliver?
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Adam Maida The Plan That Could Give Us Our Lives Back
The U.S. has never had enough coronavirus tests. Now a group of epidemiologists, economists, and dreamers is plotting a new strategy to defeat the virus, even before a vaccine is found.
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Shutterstock; illustration by Paul Spella / The Atlantic A Second Coronavirus Death Surge Is Coming
There was always a logical explanation for why cases rose through the end of June while deaths did not.
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Getty / The Atlantic A Dire Warning From COVID-19 Test Providers
U.S. coronavirus testing could fail again, as surging demand creates new backlogs and delays.
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The Atlantic A Devastating New Stage of the Pandemic
The U.S. has seen more cases in the past week than in any week since the pandemic began.
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Mel D. Cole / Getty / The Atlantic America Is Giving Up on the Pandemic
Businesses are reopening. Protests are erupting nationwide. But the virus isn’t done with us.
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Getty / The Atlantic ‘How Could the CDC Make That Mistake?’
The government’s disease-fighting agency is conflating viral and antibody tests, compromising a few crucial metrics that governors depend on to reopen their economies. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, and other states are doing the same.
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The Atlantic State and Federal Data on COVID-19 Testing Don’t Match Up
The CDC has quietly started releasing nationwide numbers. But they contradict what states themselves are reporting.
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Getty / The Atlantic How Virginia Juked Its COVID-19 Data
The state is combining results from viral and antibody tests in the same statistic. This threatens to confound America’s understanding of the pandemic.
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How Facebook Works for Trump
Donald Trump won the presidency by using the social network’s advertising machinery in exactly the way the company wanted. He’s poised to do it again.
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Adam Maida A New Statistic Reveals Why America’s COVID-19 Numbers Are Flat
Few figures tell you anything useful about how the coronavirus has spread through the U.S. Here’s one that does.
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Steve Pfost / Newsday RM via Getty Private Labs Are Fueling a New Coronavirus Testing Crisis
Backlogs at private laboratories have ballooned, making it difficult to treat suffering patients and contain the pandemic.
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Hanna Barczyk and Franziska Barczyk How the Coronavirus Became an American Catastrophe
The death and economic damage sweeping the United States could have been avoided—if only we had started testing for the virus sooner.
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Eduardo Munoz / VIEWpress via Getty How to Understand Your State’s Coronavirus Numbers
As the outbreak spreads, state websites are still some of the best sources of information on how many people have been tested.
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