A mysterious outbreak. Hundreds of stricken schoolgirls. Was it an illness, or was something darker to blame?

A preview from Georgia about how America might reemerge from the coronavirus.

On hometowns.

On the public-health risks of the American prison system.

A cross section of Angelenos consider ‘What’s next?’

A profile of the contrarian French scientist Didier Raoult, who proposed an anti-malarial drug as a COVID cure.

Health-care workers have been on the job throughout the pandemic. What can they teach us about the safest way to lift a lockdown?

On eating and coping mechanisms, childhood and self-control, criticism, love, cancer, and pandemics.

Exploring your subconscious during quarantine.

At the start of the coronavirus outbreak, one ill-fated cruise ship became a symbol for the panic and confusion that would soon engulf the globe. What two harrowing weeks trapped aboard the ocean liner felt like—for unsuspecting tourists, for frightened crew members, and for the captain himself.

On long-distance grief.

A viral video in which Dr. Annie Bukacek questions the severity of COVID-19 has given anti-lockdown activists across the country a sense of validation.

Federal agencies have hired contractors with no experience to find respirators and masks, fueling a black market filled with price gouging and multiple layers of profiteering brokers. One contractor called them “buccaneers and pirates.”

For the Zulu club, a black social organization in New Orleans, Mardi Gras was a joy. The coronavirus made it a tragedy.

The first epicenter is coming back to life, but not as anyone knew it.

The initial coronavirus outbreaks on the East and West Coasts emerged at roughly the same time. But the danger was communicated very differently.

A front-line physician at Elmhurst Hospital sees how closely socioeconomic status is tied to the disease, and tries to help patients who are dying without their families.

The long struggle for workers’ rights at poultry plants is now more urgent than ever

Carnival Cruise executives knew they had a virus problem, but kept the party going.

Lee Holloway programmed internet security firm Cloudflare into being. But then he became apathetic, distant, and unpredictable—for a long time, no one could make sense of it.

A Covid diary: This is what I saw as the pandemic engulfed our hospitals.

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

On parenting during a pandemic.

What coronavirus can teach us about hope.

A profile of the doctor who has run the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for 36 years.