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Health
Relearning ways to grieve
With everything from hugs to funerals now forbidden or unrecognizable, a Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health online forum focused on “How the Discomfort of Grief Can Help Us: Recognizing and Adapting to Loss During the COVID-19 Outbreak.”
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Science & Tech
Students come together with Congregate
With the move to online classes, a group of Harvard students quickly formed a team and collaborated over spring break to develop Congregate, a web platform that enables users to host events or gatherings that are broken into many dynamically generated conversation rooms.
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Health
Hope for managing hospital admissions of COVID-19 cases
A top emergency-preparedness official with Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital says recent modeling shows social distancing is working to flatten the curve.
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Health
Innovating to train medical pros on using mechanical ventilators
Harvard and EdX, the virtual learning platform founded by Harvard and MIT, announced the launch of a free online course designed to train frontline medical professionals to operate the mechanical ventilators needed to treat COVID-19 patients.
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Science & Tech
‘Faster protection with less material’
Further research and development on a class of molecules called bisphosphonates might turbocharge a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus, and help bring immunity to huge populations more quickly.
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Health
Injections to become pills, in vision of Harvard-launched startup
New formulations enable oral delivery of therapeutics traditionally delivered intravenously.
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Campus & Community
Blessings from afar
How Harvard is observing Easter and Passover in the age of coronavirus.
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Campus & Community
‘The world changed, so we changed with it’
While the majority of the Wyss Institute is working remotely, a small but dedicated team is still coming into the lab to help treat and cure COVID-19.
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Campus & Community
Harbingers of Housing Day
The background and history of the Harvard House mascots and the students beneath the masks.
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Campus & Community
Turning Harvard virtual
A look at how Harvard University Information Technology helped the University, including the College and 12 graduate Schools, move all classes online.
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Science & Tech
Scientists map human protein interactions
Scientists produce a reference map of human protein interactions, releasing data helpful for understanding diseases including cancer and infectious diseases such as COVID-19.
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Health
A flawed masterpiece
In a new paper published in Cell, Harvard researchers exploring the genetic features that help make the knee possible found that the regulatory switches involved in its development also play a role in a partially heritable disease.
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Health
How masks and buildings can be barriers to the coronavirus
According to Harvard’s Joe Allen, coronavirus is likely being transmitted in buildings through ventilation systems. But there are ways to minimize risks.
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Campus & Community
The way we live now
One Harvard student describes what life is like on a deserted campus while another shares his experience going home and the adjustments the followed.
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Science & Tech
Design School turns 3D printers into PPE producers
The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) began production of personal protective equipment (PPE) on Sunday.
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Health
From a care of souls to the care of bodies
Kevin Cranston discusses the critical and continuing need for adequate testing and about how data helps inform policy and procedures during a pandemic.
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Campus & Community
Harvard and MIT donate $500,000 to Cambridge
Harvard University has donated $250,000 to support a temporary emergency shelter in Cambridge.
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Campus & Community
Graduate School of Design’s dean diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
Graduate School of Design Dean Sarah M. Whiting diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
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Health
Epidemiologist says COVID-19 may be more infectious than thought
Efforts to protect nursing home patients should include moving residents from facilities and increased testing, said Harvard epidemiologist Michael Mina.
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Campus & Community
‘I thought: This is going to be interesting’
Nearly two weeks after he announced that he and his wife, Adele Fleet Bacow, had been exposed to the novel coronavirus, Harvard President Larry Bacow shared his experience with the pandemic illness.
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Health
Harvard to help track the virus
Soon hundreds of students from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health will begin assisting with phone calls and emails, and taking part in efforts to identify and reach out to anyone who may have come into contact with someone infected with the novel coronavirus.
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Nation & World
Leadership on the front line
The Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative help hundreds of city leaders tackle the pandemic.
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Nation & World
The collective effort
Harvard students, alumni, faculty, and staff from the nationwide “To Serve Better” project weigh in on how coronavirus is affecting their corner of the country, and the work they do.
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Health
Ways to redirect our response to COVID-19 anxieties
Third in series of Chan School forums offers tips for dealing with COVID-19 anxieties.
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Campus & Community
Mobile clinics finding their place in pandemic
Harvard Medical School’s Family Van co-hosted a webinar to discuss what the mobile clinics have to offer during the coronavirus pandemic — and it’s a lot.
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Health
Mask decontamination methods: Strengths, weaknesses, gaps
As health care workers resort to mask reuse, a coalition of professionals compares risks, benefits of major decontamination methods.
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Campus & Community
Notes from the new normal
What is normal in a quarantined world? Apparently, whatever you want it to be.
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Nation & World
In prisons, a looming coronavirus crisis
Experts from across the University are calling for state officials to limit the number of people in jails and prisons in an effort to stop the virus’ spread.
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Campus & Community
Zooming through the grad Schools
A look at how virtual classes are going at Harvard’s graduate Schools, whose needs and missions are different from the College’s.
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Campus & Community
University community rallies to deal with COVID-19 crisis
Harvard faculty, students, researchers, and staff are working with hospitals, first responders, state and city leaders, and many more across Greater Boston to support the response to the coronavirus pandemic.
