Fascinating Coronavirus Features from Science Journalist Ed Yong

The fight against the coronavirus won’t be over when the U.S. reopens. Here’s how the nation must prepare itself.

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

The disease’s “long-haulers” have endured relentless waves of debilitating symptoms—and disbelief from doctors and friends.

Many American public-health specialists are at risk of burning out as the coronavirus surges back.

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

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 new coronavirus seems so strange because it has our full attention in a way most viruses don’t.

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.

“We are on an absolutely catastrophic path,” said a COVID-19 doctor at America’s best-prepared hospital.

The epidemics of the early 21st century revealed a world unprepared, even as the risks continue to multiply. Much worse is coming.