
Hard-Won Pandemic Gains
Building on lessons learned from SARS-CoV-2, pandemic preparedness has taken on renewed urgency
Building on lessons learned from SARS-CoV-2, pandemic preparedness has taken on renewed urgency
Scientists are just starting to unravel the disease’s long-term cardiac effects
Historians of the 1918 influenza pandemic discuss lessons for what the future of COVID might look like
Recent findings blow up assumptions about who chooses to get vaccinated against the disease
How to limit your risk of transmitting or getting infected with SARS-CoV-2
Burning piles of used gloves, test kits and syringes release toxic pollutants. But there are ways to improve medical recycling
Scientists are debating whether to use a little-known measure to determine who is truly contagious. The NFL is already using it
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.You can listen to all past episodes here...
Grandparents are a majority of the pandemic’s death toll
A CDC database of sewage data from communities around the nation could provide earlier warning of outbreaks and new viral variants
Opinion among physicians and scientists still ranges widely on how quickly to proceed
The poor, no matter where they live, will suffer the greatest lasting toll
COVID energized the Black Lives Matter movement—and provoked a dangerous backlash
The need to reinvent the World Health Organization has become abundantly clear
People realized their jobs don’t have to be that way
The COVID research infrastructure will help fight all sorts of pathogens
But society is not prepared for the growing crisis of long COVID
COVID accelerated the development of cutting-edge PCR tests—and made the need for them urgent
Those with the most at stake were heard the least
Health security is as important to a nation as a standing army
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