What Genetics Can–and Cannot–Reveal about an Individual's COVID Risk

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May 18, 2022

Health Care What Genetics Can--and Cannot--Reveal about an Individual's COVID Risk Genome-wide association studies can sleuth out genetic markers that raise or lower COVID risk, but they miss social factors By Joanna Thompson

Mental Health Mental Health Care Should Be Available for All, Not a Luxury The stress of COVID fractured a system that was already cracked By Sarah Sloat

Public Health How Accurate Are Rapid COVID Tests? Two testing experts explain the latest data on how well the assays perform By Nathaniel Hafer,Apurv Soni,The Conversation US

Extraterrestrial Life Origin of Life Theory Involving RNA–Protein Hybrid Gets New Support A structure that links amino acids suggests that early organisms could have been based on an RNA-protein mix By Davide Castelvecchi,Nature magazine

Space Exploration Boeing's Starliner Launch Will Bring New Cargo and Science to the Space Station The uncrewed flight includes a payload of food, provisions and a specialized flight-test dummy By Josh Dinner,SPACE.com

Vaccines What the U.S. Can Learn from Brazil's Successful COVID Vaccination Campaign Despite similar leadership at the start of the pandemic, Brazilians are more trusting of government and view vaccination as a necessity and a right By Adriana de Souza e Silva,Claudio Araujo

Consciousness We Shouldn't Try to Make Conscious Software--Until We Should Eventually, the most ethical option might be to divert all resources toward building very happy machines By Jim Davies

Natural Disasters Climate Change Caused $4 Billion of Typhoon's Damage A new wave of attribution research links the economic cost of weather events to climate change By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Conservation The Scientists Fighting for Parasite Conservation Parasites play an outsize role in balancing ecosystems, and some species may be in danger By Rachel Nuwer

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 326, Issue 6

FROM THE ARCHIVE Genes May Influence COVID-19 Risk, New Studies Hint DNA changes tied to immune reactions, a viral doorway and blood type could affect disease severity By Emily Willingham | July 2020

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