DeAgostini / Getty The Core Lesson of the COVID-19 Heart Debate The new coronavirus seems so strange because it has our full attention in a way most viruses don’t.

Moises Saman / Magnum How We Survive the Winter The coming months of the pandemic could be catastrophic. The U.S. still has ways to prepare.

Aaron Marin America Is Trapped in a Pandemic Spiral 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 Atlantic All the President’s Lies About the Coronavirus An unfinished compendium of Trump’s overwhelming dishonesty during a national emergency

Getty / Paul Spella / The Atlantic Long-Haulers Are Redefining COVID-19 Without understanding the lingering illness that some patients experience, we can’t understand the pandemic.

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.

The Atlantic Immunology Is Where Intuition Goes to Die Which is too bad because we really need to understand how the immune system reacts to the coronavirus.

Dina Litovsky / Redux How the Pandemic Defeated America A virus has brought the world’s most powerful country to its knees.

The Atlantic A Vaccine Reality Check So much hope is riding on a breakthrough, but a vaccine is only the beginning of the end.

Nicola Muirhead America Should Prepare for a Double Pandemic COVID-19 has steamrolled the country. What happens if another pandemic starts before this one is over?

Newsha Tavakolian A New Understanding of Herd Immunity The portion of the population that needs to get sick is not fixed. We can change it.

Getty / Annalise Pasztor / Katie Martin / ... A State-by-State Coronavirus Tracker The latest number of confirmed cases everywhere in the U.S.

Julian Montague Paging Dr. Hamblin: My Brother Is Having 150 People at His Wedding Next Week No one should be expected to attend an in-person gathering right now.

Getty / Paul Spella / The Atlantic COVID-19 Can Last for Several Months The disease’s “long-haulers” have endured relentless waves of debilitating symptoms—and disbelief from doctors and friends.

Julian Montague Paging Dr. Hamblin: Does Vitamin D Help Fight COVID-19? Evidence is slowly mounting. Some researchers think that’s enough to recommend it.

Namrata Gosavi Is Everyone Depressed? Suddenly, many people meet the criteria for clinical depression. Doctors are scrambling to determine who needs urgent intervention, and who is simply the new normal.

Piotr Malecki / Panos Pictures / R​edux Social Distancing Is Not Enough We will need a comprehensive strategy to reduce the sort of interactions that can lead to more infections.

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.

Medical Research Council/The Atlantic ‘COVID-19 Is a Delirium Factory’ In a new documentary from The Atlantic, coronavirus survivors describe frightening experiences in the intensive-care unit.