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THE PERILS OF
LONG COVID
A BOOM IN
DIAGNOSTICS
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
AND BACKLASH
SCIENTIFICAMERICAN.COM
MARCH 2022
HOW
COVID
CHANGED
THE
WORLD
Lessons from two years
of emergency science,
upheaval and loss
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A virus showed the dangers of rugged individualism
Global health institutions lost trust
Messenger RNA vaccines opened the door to new therapies
Conspiracy theories made everything harder
And more
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VO L U M E 3 2 6 , N U M B E R 3
28 How COVID
Changed the World
By Jen Schwartz
SPECIAL REPORT
32 a Microbe Proved That
Individualism Is a Myth
By Robin G. Nelson
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34 A High-Speed Scientific
hive Mind Emerged
By Joseph Bak-Coleman and
Carl T. Bergstrom
38 Science Journalism Shifted
with New realities
By Tanya Lewis
40 COVID Set Off a Boom
in Diagnostics
By Roxanne Khamsi
43 american Public health
revealed Its Fragility
By Wendy E. Parmet
46 Global health Institutions
reached Their Limits
By Lawrence O. Gostin
50 We Didn’t Get Serious about
the climate crisis
By Samantha Montano
51 Lockdowns Showed the Promise
of cities with Fewer cars
By Andrea Thompson
52 Inequality Got Much Worse
By Joseph E. Stiglitz
54 Messenger rNa Therapies
Finally arrived
By Drew Weissman
55 Billionaire Space Tourists
Became Insufferable
By Clara Moskowitz
56 Long haulers called attention
to chronic Illnesses
By Meghan O’Rourke
66 Fault Lines in american Society
Got Deeper
By Aldon Morris 
70 Vaccine Inequality Shut
Vulnerable People Out of
Plans to Save the Planet
By Nnimmo Bassey
58 Data captured cOVID’s
Uneven Toll
By Amanda Montañez and
Jen Christiansen 
71 Oxygen Shortages Delayed
rocket Launches
By Tory Bruno
72 conspiracy Theories Made It
harder for Scientists to Seek
the Truth
By Stephan Lewandowsky,
Peter Jacobs and Stuart Neil
64 Work changed Forever
By Christina Maslach and
Michael P. Leiter
75 Pandemic-Era research
Paid Off—and Will for Years
By Britt Glaunsinger
ON ThE c OVE r
Two years into the pandemic,
experts reflect on what the virus
has done to science and society—
what we’ve learned, what can’t be
undone and how to move forward.
Illustration by Olena Shmahalo.
65 Nasal Spray Preventives
Went into Development
By Megha Satyanarayana
78 cOVID Is here to Stay
By Christine Crudo Blackburn
Illustration by James Olstein
March 2022, ScientificAmerican.com
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4 From the Editor
6 Letters
8 Science Agenda
Neglect of global public health cannot continue.
By the Editors
10 Forum
A patent-free vaccine could finally inoculate the world.
By Peter J. Hotez and Maria Elena Bottazzi
12 Advances
8
Pulling DNA from thin air to track biodiversity.
A mathematical law for sea-life mass. Gooey liquids’
counterintuitive flow. A giant flower’s adversarial host.
24 Meter
Planetary scientists report their findings in haiku.
By Attendees of the 52nd Lunar
and Planetary Science Conference
26 The Science of Health
Abortion pills are safe and effective—
and access is still restricted.
By Claudia Wallis
80 Recommended
12
Earth’s sonic diversity is threatened by humans.
Secret scents of birds. Imagining animals in revolt.
Revised take on consciousness. Leaving COVID-
stricken New York for another planet.
By Amy Brady
82 Observatory
Claims about a fertility “biological clock”
are wildly overblown.
By Naomi Oreskes
83 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago
By Mark Fischetti
84 Graphic Science
82
The incredible south-north journey
of monarch butterflies.
By Katie Peek
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