Covid-19

A barber watching Covid-19 news (Credit: Jaafar Ashtiyeh / Getty Images)
Covid-19
The knowns and unknowns of Covid-19
By BBC Future team
Studying people who show unusual levels of resistance or susceptiblity to Covid-19 may lead to new treatments (Credit: Ernesto Benavides/Getty Images)
Covid-19
The people with high Covid resistance
By David Cox
If you added it all up, the world's coronavirus would fit inside a soft drinks can (Credit: Dania Maxwell/Getty Images)
Covid-19
Why all coronavirus fits in a soda can
By Christian Yates
Navigating future pandemics could be harder if nobody believes anything they read or see (Credit: Getty Images)
Wise Words
The greatest security threat of our age
By Elizabeth Seger
We might wish to forget, but the trauma will remain (Credit: PA)
Covid-19
Can a civilisation feel 'mass trauma'?
By Ed Prideaux
Voters in a socially distanced queue in Caracas (Credit: Getty Images)
Immune Response
Can vaccinated people spread Covid-19?
By Zaria Gorvett
The virus that causes Covid-19 is picking up mutations as it spreads perhaps as it tries to escape people's immune systems (Credit: Mohammed Abed/Getty Images)
Covid-19
What we know about Covid-19 variants
By Richard Gray
Close contact between camels and humans risks spreading Mers – a more deadly coronavirus relative of Covd-19 (Credit: Jacob Kushner)
Stopping the Next One
The virus hunters warily eyeing camels
By Jacob Kushner in Marsabit, Kenya
Scentists are starting to notice patterns in the mutations that are emerging in Covid-19 all over the world (Credit: Oscar Del Pozo/Getty Images)
Covid-19
How Covid-19 will evolve in the future
By Richard Gray
A scientist holding up a vial of Covid-19 vaccine (Credit: Getty Images)
Immune Response
How effective is a single vaccine dose?
By Zaria Gorvett
One of Duong’s team works with a sample of bat urine (Credit: Sa Sola)
Stopping the Next One
What the next pandemic could be
The skyscrapers of Hong Kong photographed from above (Credit: Didier Marti/Getty Images)
Covid-19
The upsides to living in cities
By Matthew Keegan
Image showing memory loss (Credit: Sean Gladwell/Getty Images)
Covid-19
Is the pandemic ruining our memories?
By Claudia Hammond
A woman rides a sparsely occupied carriage in Hong Kong (Credit: Getty Images)
Covid-19
How to take the bus and train safely
By Richard Fisher
Some people have a visceral reaction to being told what to do by the authorities even when it could potentially save their lives (Credit: Alamy)
Comment & Analysis
Why people object to life-saving laws
By William Park
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