Tag: contact tracing

  • Work & Economy

    What might COVID cost the U.S.? Try $16 trillion

    Harvard economists have estimated the pandemic’s overall cost at a staggering $16 trillion, an economic toll not seen since the Great Depression, and say that figure justifies the expense of efforts to combat it.

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    Man sitting on bench in front of store that is closing.
  • Science & Tech

    Inside Harvard’s COVID tracing effort

    A look at COVID-19 contact tracing efforts at Harvard.

    4–6 minutes
    Angela Sigal Poock.
  • Nation & World

    Community contact tracing

    An initiative to accelerate the Massachusetts’ efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 by dramatically scaling up the state’s capacity for contact tracing is being done through a new collaboration with Partners In Health in which Harvard Medical School faculty will play key leadership roles.

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    Coronavirus pandemic reported on the map of Massachusetts.