Tag: Pandemic
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‘Sharing scholarship in many different registers’
George Aumoithe rings the bell teaching history, exploring electronic music
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Retailers have been cutting costs, so why are prices still so high?
Why are items like cereal and paper towels still so expensive? Is the pandemic really to blame or could shoppers be at fault? A Harvard Business School professor explains.
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‘I realized that I couldn’t say no — not because of personal ambition, but given the moment.’
Harvard’s 29th president shares memories and lessons from his early life and career.
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Speaking from experience on what makes a global killer
COVID-19 isn’t going away, but one day may be as severe as the common cold, says epidemiologist Larry Brilliant.
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William Hanage on COVID lessons we haven’t learned
Harvard epidemiologist looks back and ahead.
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Supreme Court may halt health care guarantees for inmates
Harvard experts on law and policy say originalist view used to overturn Roe could upend the 1976 Supreme Court ruling that requires a minimal standard for inmate health care.
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Is pandemic finally over? We asked the experts.
Harvard faculty discuss changes to views on school, work, winter’s likely surge, danger of “lethal inflexibility.”
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Building ‘bravery muscles’ to fight rising anxiety among kids
Harvard psychologist says pandemic worsened trend and screening, early intervention key to avoiding bigger problems.
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Does the world need COVID novels?
Too soon or an artistic imperative? Fiction writers reflect on the history, power, challenges of stories in which real life is a dominant character.
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As alarming as test scores are, reality for U.S. students is probably worse
Professor Andrew Ho discusses growing inequality and how to help students recover ground lost during the pandemic.
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‘Shadow pandemic’ of domestic violence
Marianna Yang, a clinical instructor at the Family and Domestic Violence Law Clinic at WilmerHale Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School, discusses the rise of domestic violence during the pandemic.
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Sifting the damage of pandemic-era drinking
As studies signal serious health consequences, specialists scramble to treat acute cases and reinforce limits that define moderate use.
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Don’t let latest COVID surge overshadow progress, says Hanage
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Professor William Hanage explains how to stay on guard against subvariants, noting role of protective measures in transition to new pandemic phase.
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Good days, tough days
Anastasia Onyango, her nurse mother, rising first-year sister wrestled with COVID anxieties, cabin fever, reckoning over race — and brother’s board games.
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Getting through it together
Before COVID, a cancer diagnosis. Here’s how one Harvard student and his family grew closer even as the world seemed to come apart.
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Remote learning likely widened racial, economic achievement gap
A new study found that students in high-poverty schools that offered remote instruction for most of 2020-2021 experienced huge learning losses.
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What’s next for the CDC?
Five former CDC directors convened for a panel about the future of the agency.
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Reasons so many teachers joining Great Resignation
Experts at HGSE webinar say districts, schools could offer educators more support to slow departure of teachers.
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‘Endemic’ is not an exit
Harvard’s William Hanage, an epidemiologist and associate professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, outlines what an endemic SARS-CoV-2 might look like.
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Taking best of innovations, lessons of pandemic education
Task force releases report on how Harvard can create more engaging, equitable learning experiences.
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When will hot housing market finally start to cool?
A real estate investment expert at Harvard Business School explains what’s happening and why.
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Summers says pandemic only partly to blame for record inflation
Inflation’s re-emergence leaves the guardians of the U.S. economy with a tricky balance to strike, cooling the economy with interest rate hikes while avoiding recession, Harvard’s Lawrence Summers said.
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Hanage and other scientists keep close watch on Omicron subvariant
As Omicron rapidly recedes, some countries are seeing a new version of the variant, dubbed BA.2
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Scientists race to define Omicron threat, worried about ‘surge upon a surge’
Early findings on immune escape and transmissibility, combined with danger posed by Delta, heighten urgency of vaccination, testing, other safety measures.
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What should Biden do about inflation? Mostly sit tight
Harvard economist says economy is on right track, and there are few things he can try, but higher prices will eventually resolve themselves.
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The peril of 5 percent
The delta variant’s increased infectiousness, coupled with remaining pools of unvaccinated people and those whose immunity has waned, are enough to drive a winter COVID-19 surge even in highly vaccinated parts of the country, a Harvard infectious diseases expert said.
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Epidemiologist predicts likely decline in U.S. COVID cases, deaths
William Hanage predicts a likely decline in U.S. COVID cases, depending on vaccination rates, control tactics, and the absence of variants.
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A new way for graduates to connect and find inspiration
Harvard Alumni Association executive director talks about rethinking alumni weekend and embracing an inclusive future.
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How Harvard’s multilayer strategy helps keep COVID rates low
Health Services chief points to air filtration systems, high vaccination rates, masking and testing protocols, and other measures.