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...
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
Wealthy countries have bought up most of the available vaccine doses for booster shots but still have far more than they need
Global players need to get more vaccines to African nations and convince more people to take them
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...
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...
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
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...
A new delivery method for certain vaccines could make the lifesaving treatments more effective and accessible
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...
An immunologist explains how the immune system changes as people mature
The FDA’s decision to expand eligibility for the Pfizer vaccine to young kids could mean less illness, safer school and more freedom
