Tag: coronavirus
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Science & Tech
A COVID cure worse than the disease?
Some worry a treatment that kills SARS-CoV-2 by helping it mutate could spawn a super virus. New research weighs in on its “evolutionary safety.”
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Health
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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Health
Subvariants cause for alarm, hybrid immunity hard to beat
Harvard scientists give their read on recent COVID data from the U.S. and South Africa.
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Health
What’s next for the CDC?
Five former CDC directors convened for a panel about the future of the agency.
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Health
New page in pandemic playbook
Risk assessment experts offer tips for balancing pandemic risks, as government restrictions ease.
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Health
Hints of a long COVID wave as Omicron fades
As Omicron fades, specialists seek answers for patients who can’t shake symptoms.
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Health
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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Health
Omicron optimism and shift from pandemic to endemic
With Omicron on the decline in some states, pandemic experts permit themselves hope, at least for the near term.
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Health
Remdesivir-resistant COVID case sets off few alarms
Harvard Med specialist says cases of remdesivir-resistant disease seem rare, may not become big issue.
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Health
Fauci speaks to the perilous moment in Harvard Chan School lecture
At Harvard, Anthony Fauci outlined early Omicron findings and urged more robust efforts to bring the pandemic under control, including global vaccination.
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Health
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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Health
2 early vaccination surveys worse than worthless thanks to ‘big data paradox,’ analysts say
As governments and health officials navigate pandemic, researchers stress the danger that comes with bad information.
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Work & Economy
Will Omicron damage the economy?
Harvard economist and Nobel laureate Eric Maskin sees possible challenges and reasons for optimism.
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Health
Omicron ‘astonishing to behold,’ says Hanage
With Omicron landing in the U.S. this week, Harvard epidemiologist William Hanage reviewed what we know and the many things still unknown about the fast-moving coronavirus variant.
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Health
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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Health
FDA panel member cheered by Pfizer news on COVID vaccine in kids
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has been shown to be safe in school-age children, a potentially key development in the fight to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control.
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Campus & Community
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.
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Health
Diet may affect risk and severity of COVID-19
Massachusetts General Hospital study links healthy plant-based foods with lower risks of getting of COVID-19 and of having severe disease after infection.
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Health
Is delta unstoppable?
Despite its ability to transmit more easily and puncture vaccine defenses, the delta variant is no superbug. It is vulnerable to masking, distancing, and other non-pharmaceutical interventions, lessons from delta outbreaks overseas show.
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Work & Economy
Tying COVID information to worker — and employer — well-being
With COVID-19 cases going back up just as workplaces and schools prepare to reopen, a Harvard Chan School talk digs into the challenges of maintaining worker well-being on the job.
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Nation & World
How far can Biden go?
Harvard Law School’s W. Neil Eggleston says President Biden is on solid legal ground to mandate that federal workers get vaccinated against COVID-19.
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Health
Reaching people where they live and die
Robert Blendon examined the divide among Americans over vaccine mandates.
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Nation & World
From bad to worse in Latin America
Associate Professor Alisha Holland discusses the political impact of the pandemic in Latin America.
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Campus & Community
Lifting restrictions, urging vaccination
HUHS Director Giang Nguyen discusses the delta variant of COVID-19 and gives a first look at what campus re-entry will look like.
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Health
Assessing the delta variant
Coronavirus ultimately not over, says Harvard Chan School’s William Hanage.
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Campus & Community
Daily walks? Baking? Mindfulness? Which pandemic changes are keepers?
The Gazette asked members of the Harvard community what habits they developed during the pandemic and how they plan to keep them after the pandemic is over.
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Campus & Community
Putting science to work
Inspired by a first-year human rights seminar, Francesco Rolando wants to help remove barriers to health care, especially for marginalized populations.
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Science & Tech
Human organ chips enable rapid drug repurposing for COVID-19
A Wyss Institute-led collaboration has used the institute’s organ-on-a-chip technology to identify the antimalarial drug amodiaquine as a potent inhibitor of infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.