Vaccines

My colleagues and I use a protocol to inoculate safely, and the CDC needs to revise its recommendations

Endless boosting might not be a practical or sustainable strategy, scientists say

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.

Vaccine makers worry yet another variant will start dominating in the months it takes to roll out shots against this one

With proved technology and no-frills tech transfer, CORBEVAX is poised to reach hundreds of millions in the coming weeks

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.

After my son got sick, I dived into the data, and it turns out vaccinated people can and do spread COVID

The rapid spread of new variants such as Omicron offers clues to how SARS-CoV-2 is adapting and how the pandemic will play out over the next several months

The extra shot doesn’t mean that vaccines are ineffective; our bodies just need a reminder

A microbiologist explains how Pfizer and Moderna would rapidly adjust mRNA vaccines

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.

Vaccination is likely to prevent many more COVID cases than it is to cause a rare and nonfatal heart side effect in five- to 11-year-olds