March 2022, ScientificAmerican.com 1March 2022VOLUME 326, NUMBER 3Illustration by James Olstein
ON ThE cOVEr
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.28
SPECIAL REPORT28 How COVID
Changed the World
By Jen Schwartz
32 a Microbe Proved That
Individualism Is a Myth
By Robin G. Nelson
34 A High-Speed Scientifichive 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 Boomin 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 TouristsBecame Insufferable
By Clara Moskowitz
56 Long haulers called attention
to chronic Illnesses
By Meghan O’Rourke
58 Data captured cOVID’s
Uneven Toll
By Amanda Montañez and
Jen Christiansen
64 Work changed Forever
By Christina Maslach and
Michael P. Leiter
65 Nasal Spray Preventives
Went into Development
By Megha Satyanarayana
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
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
75 Pandemic-Era research
Paid Off—and Will for Years
By Britt Glaunsinger
78 cOVID Is here to Stay
By Christine Crudo BlackburnBanca do Antfer
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