The Coronavirus Outbreak

Experts address when the youngest children could be eligible for the shots, why that has taken so long, and more

COVID misinformation has led to many top scientists leaving their public positions, putting health policy in the hands of people with limited expertise

Despite similar leadership at the start of the pandemic, Brazilians are more trusting of government and view vaccination as a necessity and a right

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

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

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.

Some over-the-counter medications can help symptoms, and there are ways to ease isolation

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

How to tell the different versions of SARS-CoV-2 apart, and how well vaccines protect against them

Three nasal spritzes, now in advanced trials, could trigger stronger immunity than shots in the arm

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.

A modeling study is the first to project how global warming will increase animal encounters and virus swapping between species