The Coronavirus Outbreak

Such protection declines within months of the mRNA COVID vaccines’ third dose. Yet the vaccines continue to ward off severe disease

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 study adds to evidence suggesting that SARS-CoV-2 infection doesn’t cause an inflamed-toe condition called chilblains, but it doesn’t close the door

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