Hidden Black Scientists Proved the Polio Vaccine Worked
Tuskegee Institute researchers showed Jonas Salk’s vaccine protected children by developing a key test -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Labor Department Issues Emergency Rules to Protect Health Care Workers From COVID
The new rules would require employers to notify workers of possible exposure to the disease and to report deaths or hospitalizations to the government -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
COVAX Effort to Vaccinate the World Is Faltering
The international collaboration does not have enough COVID vaccine doses to meet its goals, so wealthy countries must step up to fill the gap -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The COVID Lab-Leak Hypothesis: What Scientists Do and Do Not Know
An examination of the arguments that SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a lab in China and the science behind them -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Finding Conclusive Animal Origins Of The Coronavirus Will Take Time
Viruses that “spill over” to people do not stick around in animals, so finding true sources takes years of careful work, an expert says -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
A ‘Universal’ Coronavirus Vaccine to Prevent the Next Pandemic
A pan-coronavirus vaccine could be “one vaccine to rule them all,” and so far it has shown strong results in mice, hamsters, monkeys, horses and even sharks. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Why India’s Second COVID Surge Is So Much Worse Than the First
Large gatherings and much more lenient restrictions have allowed the virus to spread at devastating levels -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Covid, Quickly: A Pop-Up Podcast
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... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Coronavirus News Roundup, May 22 to June 4
Pandemic highlights for the past two weeks -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Coronavirus News Roundup, May 22 to June 4
Pandemic highlights for the past two weeks -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Some Pandemic Health Habits Deserve to Stay
We need a public health culture change informed by lessons from COVID -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Some Pandemic Health Habits Deserve to Stay
We need a public health culture change informed by lessons from COVID -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
COVID, Quickly, Episode 8: The Pandemic’s True Death Toll and the Big Lab-Leak Debate
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... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
COVID, Quickly, Episode 8: The Pandemic’s True Death Toll and the Big Lab-Leak Debate
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... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Fixing Medical Devices That Are Biased against Race or Gender
Designers should show how well instruments perform across different populations -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Excess Deaths Reveal the Pandemic’s Hidden Toll in Some U.S. Counties
A detailed analysis suggests that COVID deaths and other pandemic-related mortality may have been significantly undercounted in the rural South and West -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com