These Videos Could Boost COVID Vaccination Rates

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June 28, 2021

Dear Reader, YouTubers and other social media influences sharing coronavirus and vaccine information are helping reach more people. Scientists are developing new kinds of proteins that could lead to better COVID vaccines and medicines. And couples that blamed their stress on the pandemic were more likely to fare better.

Tanya Lewis, Senior Editor, Health & Medicine @tanyalewis314

Public Health These Videos Could Boost COVID Vaccination Rates Creators on social media platforms significantly extend the reach of coronavirus and vaccine information By Grant Currin

Behavior & Society It's Not You, It's COVID: Couples Who Blamed Pandemic for Tensions Stayed Happier Pinning stress on the coronavirus helped couples cope and remain resilient By Tess Joosse

Medical & Biotech Artificial Proteins Never Seen in the Natural World Are Becoming New COVID Vaccines and Medicines Researchers have begun to crack the code of protein structure, allowing them to remake, well, everything By Rowan Jacobsen

Medicine CureVac COVID Vaccine Letdown Spotlights mRNA Design Challenges Scientists are searching for explanations to disappointing final-stage trial results. These insights could help guide the future development of mRNA vaccines By Elie Dolgin,Nature magazine

The Body Gut Reactions: Microbes in the Digestive Tract Influence COVID Severity Our resident bacteria help regulate the immune system and response to infections By Katrin Legg

The Body Why Are People with Obesity More Vulnerable to COVID? Chronic inflammation and immune breakdown appear to be key reasons By Tammy Worth

Public Health The Animal Viruses Most Likely to Jump into Humans The SpillOver tool catalogs viruses that could cause a new pandemic By Harini Barath

The Body Can Vitamin D Help Protect against COVID? Some studies suggest an impact, particularly for those who are vitamin-deficient. But for now, the jury is out By Suzanne Elvidge

Evolution Cancer Clues Found in Gene behind 'Lemon Frost' Gecko Color Research has solved a macabre mystery, and the finding could one day help efforts to catch human melanomas earlier By Maddie Bender

Climate Climate Change Could Fuel the Spread of a Flesh-Eating Parasite Scientists caution that as the planet warms, more Americans could be exposed to varieties of the Leishmania parasite By Agostino Petroni,Undark

The Body Nutrition, Immunity and a Global Pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic has focused attention on the importance of having a well-functioning immune system.

Public Health COVID, Quickly, Episode 9: Delta Variant, Global Vaccine Shortfalls, Beers for Shots 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. By Josh Fischman,Tanya Lewis,Jeffery DelViscio | 05:41

Biology Gray Hair Can Return to Its Original Color--and Stress Is Involved, of Course The universal marker of aging is not always a one-way process By Diana Kwon

Biology Deleted Coronavirus Genome Sequences Trigger Scientific Intrigue Partial SARS-CoV-2 sequences from early outbreaks in Wuhan were removed from a U.S. government database by the scientists who deposited them By Ewen Callaway,Nature magazine

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Mind, Volume 32, Issue 4

QUOTE OF THE DAY "It's very hard for someone who's traditionally trained in the sciences to accept the fact that a 17-year-old influencer who's doing wild things on TikTok is going to be [someone] we instill our trust in with our message." Corey Basch, public health researcher at William Paterson University

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Genomic Vaccines Fight Disease in Ways Not Possible Before Vaccines composed of DNA or RNA, instead of protein, could enable rapid development of preventives for infectious diseases By Geoffrey Ling | June 2017

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