Month: April 2020
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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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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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Nation & World
Waste not, want not
Since early March, Harvard Law School’s Food Law and Policy Clinic has been writing briefs aimed at saving tons of food that could feed the hungry, and working to inform the response to COVID-19, including legislation that Congress has been hammering out.
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Health
Organized to fight the pandemic
The newly formed Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness aims to address both the immediate and long-term implications of the coronavirus crisis. The effort, led by Harvard Medical School, will work to stem the tide of COVID-19 but, more importantly, to lay the groundwork for dealing with future pandemics.