A virus has brought the world’s most powerful country to its knees.

The U.S. may end up with the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the industrialized world. This is how it’s going to play out.

A guide to making sense of a problem that is now too big for any one person to fully comprehend

The coronavirus is coursing through different parts of the U.S. in different ways, making the crisis harder to predict, control, or understand.

Which is too bad because we really need to understand how the immune system reacts to the coronavirus.

Without understanding the lingering illness that some patients experience, we can’t understand the pandemic.

As the U.S. heads toward the winter, the country is going round in circles, making the same conceptual errors that have plagued it since spring.

The metaphors that Trump and others use when talking about COVID-19 are making the pandemic worse.

More people than ever are hospitalized with COVID-19. Health-care workers can’t go on like this.

And what it lost in the process

Ed Yong spent 2020 covering the pandemic for The Atlantic. His latest feature is "How Science Beat the Virus." “I am trying to give readers a platform that they can stand on to observe this raging...

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