The Coronavirus Outbreak

Human behavior and social inequity are huge confounding factors

Pandemic highlights for the week

Willingness is rising, even among skeptical groups, at a time when there are still not enough doses to go around

Uptake by patients and physicians has been low in the U.S. even though some therapies have been authorized for months

The decline suggests the vaccine is having an effect even though workers have been slower to take it than residents

Pandemic highlights for the week

Until a month ago, the agency advised that a surgical mask was sufficient unless workers were performing “aerosol-generating procedures”

Today we bring you the second episode in a new 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.

A surprising number of COVID-recovered patients deal with an array of troublesome symptoms, well after the disease is gone

On the anniversary of this global disaster, we take a look back at some of the biggest mistakes, surprising successes and lingering questions

It’s complicated; not even the experts agree

Infectious disease specialist Nahid Bhadelia discusses new recommendations on how vaccinated people can gather with one another and small groups of unvaccinated individuals