Scientific American: A selection of scientific articles related to COVID-19


Below is a selection of scientific articles related to COVID-19 published by Scientific American; the list will be updated regularly:

Coronavirus: How It Infects Us and How We Might Stop It

Coronavirus and the Flu: A Looming Double Threat

COVID-19 Can Wreck Your Heart, Even If You Have Not Had Any Symptoms

How to Decide Who Should Get a COVID-19 Vaccine First

Why Do Some People Weather Coronavirus Infection Unscathed?

Nine Important Things We’ve Learned about the Coronavirus Pandemic So Far

Nine COVID-19 Myths That Just Won’t Go Away

Why Some People Get Terribly Sick from COVID-19

Nine Important Things We've Learned about the Coronavirus Pandemic So Far

Concerns about Waning COVID-19 Immunity Are Likely Overblown

COVID-19: The Big Questions That Remain

How to Boost Your Immunity

Babies’ Mysterious Resilience to Coronavirus Intrigues Scientists

Rushing Science in the Face of a Pandemic Is Understandable but Risky

How Coronavirus Spreads through the Air: What We Know So Far

How I Built a 3-D Model of the Coronavirus for Scientific American

The Risks of Rushing a COVID-19 Vaccine

Zoos Find Creative Ways to Cope with Coronavirus Lockdowns

To Process Grief over COVID-19, Children Need Empathetic Listening

Why COVID-19 Makes People Lose Their Sense of Smell

Good News and Bad News about COVID-19 Misinformation

So How Deadly Is COVID-19?

Coronavirus and the Flu: A Looming Double Threat

How to Use Masks during the Coronavirus Pandemic

Special Report: The Coronavirus Pandemic

We're in the Calm before a New Storm of COVID-19 Infections and Deaths

One Key Factor in whether COVID-19 Will Wane This Summer

Coronavirus Lockdowns May Raise Exposure to Indoor Air Pollution

COVID-19 Vaccine Developers Search for Antibodies That 'First Do No Harm'

A Monday Is a Tuesday Is a Sunday as COVID-19 Disrupts Internal Clocks

Early Coronavirus Immunity Data Fuel Promise for a Vaccine

Coronavirus Vaccine Trials Have Delivered Their First Results--But Their Promise Is Still Unclear

Online COVID-19 Dashboard Calculates How Risky Reopenings and Gatherings Can Be

COVID-19 Threatens Endangered Species in Southeast Asia

Human Viruses Can Jump into Animals, Too--Sowing the Seeds of Future Epidemics

From Headaches to 'COVID Toes,' Coronavirus Symptoms Are a Bizarre Mix

Dogs Caught Coronavirus From Their Owners, Genetic Analysis Suggests

Bats Are Not Our Enemies

Virus Mutations Reveal How COVID-19 Really Spread

What COVID-19 Antibody Tests Can and Cannot Tell Us

Stopping Deforestation Can Prevent Pandemics

Prediction Tools Can Save Lives in the COVID-19 Crisis

How Coronavirus Spreads through the Air: What We Know So Far

How Do Children Spread the Coronavirus? The Science Still Isn't Clear

Blood Clots Are Mysteriously Tied to Many Coronavirus Problems

'Breakthrough' COVID-19 Tests Are Currently Cheap, Fast--and Not Very Accurate

What COVID-19 Antibody Tests Can and Cannot Tell Us

Virus Mutations Reveal How COVID-19 Really Spread

Coronavirus Drug Remdesivir Shortens Recovery, But Is Not a Magic Bullet

How the COVID-19 Pandemic Could End

Comparing COVID-19 Deaths to Flu Deaths Is like Comparing Apples to Oranges

Genetic Engineering Could Make a COVID-19 Vaccine in Months Rather Than Years

How a Warming Climate Could Affect the Spread of Diseases Similar to COVID-19

Summer Presents Dangerous Choice: Swelter in Quarantine or Risk Contagion

Hygiene of Hand and Mind during the Pandemic

Do Your Genes Predispose You to COVID-19?

Galileo's Lessons for Living and Working Through a Plague

A Sobering Astronomical Reminder from COVID-19

The Science behind How Coronavirus Tests Work

 

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