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HIV Care Has Improved Dramatically—But Not for Everyone

The HIV/AIDS crisis has lessons for the COVID pandemic and other health inequities

What Does ‘Protection’ against COVID Really Mean?

To answer that question, expanded testing is needed that can determine levels of T immune cells

How Accurate Are Rapid COVID Tests?

Two testing experts explain the latest data on how well the assays perform

What Genetics Can—and Cannot—Reveal about an Individual’s COVID Risk

Genome-wide association studies can sleuth out genetic markers that raise or lower COVID risk, but they miss social factors

How to Care for COVID at Home, and Is That Sniffle Allergies or the Virus? COVID Quickly, Episode 30

Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American ’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between...

Is It COVID, or Is It Allergies?

Patient history, context and a few symptoms may help distinguish between the conditions

Air-Conditioning Should Be a Human Right in the Climate Crisis

We need to protect vulnerable people from killer heat without destroying the environment

The Harmful Effects of Overturning Roe v. Wade

A landmark study of women who were turned away from getting the procedure found that being forced to have a child worsened their health and economic status.

Safer Indoor Air, and People Want Masks on Planes and Trains: COVID Quickly, Episode 29

Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American ’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between...

Why We Need to Upgrade Our Face Masks—and Where to Get Them

High-quality respirators such as N95s and KN95s are now widely available and provide the best protection against COVID, according to experts. Why aren’t more people wearing them?

Venturing Back to the Office and the Benefits of Hybrid Immunity: COVID Quickly, Episode 28

Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American ’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between...

Some Medical Ethicists Endorse NFTs—Here’s Why

The technology could help patients exert control over their medical data

Will Russia Use Chemical Weapons in Ukraine? Researchers Evaluate the Risks

Analysts explain why some fear that the Russian military will use chemical weapons—and how the world would know if it did

Second Boosters, Masks in the Next Wave and Smart Risk Decisions: COVID Quickly, Episode 27

Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American ’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between...

Immune System Master Class

COVID Revealed the Fragility of American Public Health

What happens when a deadly virus hits a vulnerable society

How the War in Ukraine Is Causing Indirect Deaths

Crowded shelters and destroyed health care facilities will likely exacerbate COVID, TB and other diseases

New COVID Spit Tests May Be More Accurate and Easier Than Nasal Swabs

Saliva PCR tests may detect disease earlier in the course of an infection

COVID Is Here to Stay

How do we live with it?

Florida Gets Kids and Vaccines Wrong and Ukraine’s Health Crisis: COVID Quickly, Episode 26

Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American ’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between...