Tag: coronavirus
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The mother of invention
COVID-19 pandemic spurs the creation of new, remote teaching methods at Harvard Medical School.
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$16.5 million awarded to projects to fight COVID
MassCPR, a coalition of regional scientific institutions united to fight COVID-19, is awarding $16 million to 62 research projects with the promise to impact patient care within a year.
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The aftermath of wars
The battlefronts of World War II and COVID-19 may look very different, but long term consequences remain the constant
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For Native Americans, COVID-19 is ‘the worst of both worlds at the same time’
Experts at the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development look at COVID-19’s economic impact on Native American communities across the U.S.
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Intel from an outpatient COVID-19 clinic
A new report by researchers examines the mostly overlooked, yet important, category of patients — those with symptoms concerning enough to seek care, yet not serious enough to need hospital treatment.
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At the center of the outbreak
Researcher Katharine Robb details how housing policies affect social and health crises, like the current pandemic.
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A time of need and a desire to help
COVID-19 spurs inspiration in student volunteers who find ways to make a difference amid the pandemic’s disruption and loss
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Brothers create screening tool for refugee populations
Brothers Hassaan Ebrahim, a student at Harvard Kennedy School, and Senan, a third-year Harvard Medical School student, founded Hikma Health, a nonprofit that builds software for organizations providing health care to refugee populations.
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From patient to front lines
Meet Katie Klatt — pediatric intensive care unit nurse, M.P.H. student at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and recovered COVID-19 patient.
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A day in the life of an ER doc
Urgent-care physician Anita Chary has turned her attention to treating those suffering from COVID-19 in recent weeks.
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Wyss-designed swabs enter human trials for COVID-19
The Wyss Institute has collaborated in the design of a new low-cost nasopharyngeal swabs that can be manufactured quickly to address the international shortage of swabs for testing and research.
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Harvard, by the books
It didn’t turn out at all the way they thought it would. Being asked to quickly leave campus and return home last month amid the mushrooming coronavirus outbreak was painful…
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Harvard launches emergency grant program for Allston-Brighton
Harvard has launched a new grant program that will provide emergency funding to nonprofit organizations responding to COVID-19-related community needs serving the Allston-Brighton neighborhood of Boston.
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From taking notes in the classroom to helping the front lines
Students in Mark Fagan’s supply chain management course spent the spring semester using their skills to help the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis.
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Why the Arboretum remains open
Director William “Ned” Friedman explains the rationale for keeping the Arboretum open during the pandemic.
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Feeling more anxious and stressed? You’re not alone
Uncertainty, unemployment, and ill health are combining to feed a rise in concern about America’s mental health as people shelter from the coronavirus and each other, a Harvard Chan School psychiatric epidemiologist said Thursday.
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Keeping ethics alive during the pandemic
The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics has launched the COVID-19 Rapid Response Impact Initiative, a series of white papers from some 40 thinkers on issues of justice, values, and civil liberties designed to inform policymakers during the crisis.
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COVID-19 targets communities of color
Harvard scholars discuss health care disparities in the age of coronavirus.
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Coronavirus and the heart
Heart damage has recently emerged as yet another grim outcome in the virus’s repertoire of possible complications.
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Time to fix American education with race-for-space resolve
Q&A with Harvard’s Paul Reville about the impact of the coronavirus on education.
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By phone and online, the care continues
A Q&A with Harvard University Health Services’ Executive Director Giang Nguyen about the steps taken to move as much care online as it could as the novel coronavirus approached. He also outlines new resources available to the Harvard community.
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SEAS moves opening of Science and Engineering Complex to spring semester ’21
Temporary suspension of construction work by the city of Boston has pushed back the planned fall opening of Harvard’s Science and Engineering Complex in Allston until next spring semester.
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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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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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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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Design School turns 3D printers into PPE producers
The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) began production of personal protective equipment (PPE) on Sunday.