Vaccines

Global players need to get more vaccines to African nations and convince more people to take them

Researchers are racing to determine whether a fast-spreading coronavirus variant poses a threat to COVID vaccines’ effectiveness

Vaccine refusal by parents is not about a lack of education, but amassing social status

With the advent of new COVID drugs comes the fear that people will opt out of vaccination altogether

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 new delivery method for certain vaccines could make the lifesaving treatments more effective and accessible

People with diseases or treatments that suppress their immune system cannot count on the same protection most vaccinated people have

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.

An immunologist explains how the immune system changes as people mature

The pandemic has brought the nursing profession into crisis; the solution is in the public’s hands

Fluvoxamine is both inexpensive and highly effective at preventing mild COVID-19 from turning severe

This Covid question played out long ago, in the fight against smallpox in 1872