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Tag: coronavirus
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Nation & World
Why the COVID-19 outbreak in Brazil has become a humanitarian crisis
Marcia de Castro, Andelot Professor of Demography at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, discusses the COVID-19 crisis in Brazil.
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Health
‘Very strong degree of normality’ likely by year’s end
Though the so-far-successful U.S. vaccination drive is likely to deliver an approximation of normal life by year’s end, Anthony Fauci and a panel of heath care experts cautioned that the global battle against COVID-19 is far from won.
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Campus & Community
A teacher for 40 years and a neighborhood ‘den mother’
Ronald Chandler remembers his mother, Carol Marie Chandler.
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Health
A pandemic that endures for COVID long-haulers
The health care system is seeing more “long COVID” patients, those whose often mild initial illness is followed up by months of severe, sometimes debilitating symptoms.
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Campus & Community
‘The full COVID-19 experience’
Gazette senior science writer Alvin Powell shares his view on the complexities of dealing with death amid pandemic, coupled with a profile of his colorful, fiercely independent, oft-married, world traveler mom who succumbed to COVID-19 last spring.
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Health
Approval of at-home tests releases a powerful pandemic-fighting weapon
FDA approval of two over-the-counter rapid antigen tests promises to transform the testing landscape around COVID-19, lowering cost and giving the certainty of knowing when you’re infected to the individual, a Harvard epidemiologist said.
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Campus & Community
A table set for two
Kathy Santoro, director of HR Programs and Operations for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, remembers time spent with her mother before losing her to COVID-19.
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Nation & World
The main public health tool during 1918 pandemic? Social distancing
The Gazette looks at the history of social distancing, which, along with masks and vaccines, is still an effective strategy to stem the spread of COVID-19.
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Health
COVID-19 vaccine protects mothers — and their newborns
Pregnant women show robust immune response to COVID vaccines, pass antibodies to newborns.
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Health
Seeking ‘a leadership moment’ on global vaccination
A $25 billion investment in global vaccines would bring a five-to-one economic return and save many lives, according to Rebecca Weintraub, an HMS global health expert.
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Arts & Culture
The sound of lockdown
Theater, Dance & Media students join Junot Díaz and other writers in an audio version of Radcliffe’s fall magazine.
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Health
Professor, banking giant join on studies of rapid COVID tests to avoid future shutdowns
A new trial seeks to test whether cheap rapid tests given three times a week can keep the workplace safe despite the coronavirus pandemic.
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Health
Lessons from Katrina on how pandemic may affect kids
Harvard researchers looked at Katrina’s impact on children and how the lessons learned there could be applied to the COVID pandemic.
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Health
Vaccines can get us to herd immunity, despite the variants
Can the current crop of vaccines get us to herd immunity even if variants become widespread? A Harvard immunologist says yes.
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Health
We may duck a surge from variant that sent Britain reeling
A Harvard epidemiologist said the forces of seasonality, slowly rising immunity, and shifting personal behavior will likely create a viral variant landscape with regional spikes in the months to come rather than a uniform national wave.
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Health
Young adults hardest hit by loneliness during pandemic
As experts worry the COVID pandemic is triggering a loneliness epidemic, new Harvard research suggests some of the hardest hit are older teens and young adults.
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Health
Chan School study gives airports high marks in COVID safety
Harvard scientists say airports are employing a layered approach to make air travel safer for those who must fly.
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Nation & World
Amid pandemic tragedy, an opportunity for change?
The Harvard chairs of a new Lancet commission studying universal health care in India say the coronavirus’ impact there has created a moment of opportunity for change.
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Health
Newest vaccine emerges amid a ‘more complicated pandemic’
Harvard Medical School Professor Dan Barouch said the “complicated pandemic” means more work lies ahead.
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Health
Pandemic pushes mental health to the breaking point
The coronavirus has had an unexpected mental health impact, striking hardest where its physical impacts are lowest: among youths and young adults.
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Health
Immunologist says technology can keep up with COVID variants
Despite worries that a new coronavirus variant may be able to evade vaccines just being distributed, a Harvard public health expert expressed confidence in the same technology that produced the vaccines in record time.
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Nation & World
K-12 education appears on downward slide as pandemic continues
U.S. K-12 schools are struggling through a difficult school year, with a significant number of children who are learning remotely becoming chronically absent, a Harvard education experts said Tuesday.
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Health
Highly infectious coronavirus variant dampens prospects for summer return to normal
Will the British variant’s transmissibility upset summer plans?
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Health
COVID-19 unmasked
A biology-based mathematical model indicates why COVID-19 outcomes vary widely and how therapy can be tailored to match the needs of specific patient groups.
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Campus & Community
Top Gazette stories of 2020
As 2020 comes to a close we look back at some of the Gazette’s most-read stories of the year.
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Science & Tech
Research labs score perfect COVID safety records
Six months after reopening, Harvard’s labs report an unblemished safety record, important contributions to the state’s economy, and an array of scientific findings, albeit with the requisite frustration of operating during a pandemic.
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Work & Economy
COVID vaccine race leaders likely won’t be only ones to reap huge payday
The coronavirus pandemic will likely make some vaccine companies rich, but which companies and how rich relies on the still-murky future of the pandemic, a Harvard health policy expert said.
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Science & Tech
Here comes the sun
Seasonal changes in UV may alter the spread of COVID but not as much as social distancing.
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Nation & World
Rochelle Walensky to run CDC
Rochelle Walensky, professor at Harvard Medical School and chief of infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital, was named the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by President-elect Biden.
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Health
Will there be a serious post-Thanksgiving COVID surge?
Evidence of a post-Thanksgiving surge should be emerging this week, a Harvard epidemiologist said, advising people who gathered together to get tested or assume they’re infected.
