Tag: COVID-19
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Health
The present and future of COVID variants
Conversations with Harvard experts shed light on the rise of delta, an unwelcome twist in transmission, the power of vaccination, and more.
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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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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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Nation & World
How COVID taught America about inequity in education
This installment of the Unequal series looks at the how the pandemic called attention to issues surrounding the racial achievement gap in America.
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Health
Why returning to ‘normal’ feels so not
A Harvard Chan School psychologist counseled awareness and flexibility as people return to work, school, or other pre-pandemic activities.
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Science & Tech
Face mask can help diagnose COVID-19
A team of researchers from the Wyss Institute has found a way to embed synthetic biology reactions into fabrics, creating wearable biosensors that can be customized to detect pathogens and toxins and alert the wearer.
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Nation & World
Learning from COVID’s ‘Chernobyl moment’
Members of an independent panel charged with coming up with ways to prevent the next pandemic urged international action.
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Nation & World
Study suggests new lessons on COVID-19 and mass incarceration
Results of a new Harvard paper are offering lessons on pandemic preparedness and providing another argument against mass incarceration.
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Campus & Community
What the easing of Mass. COVID restrictions means for the University
The Gazette spoke with Giang Nguyen, Harvard University Health Services’ executive director, and Bill VanSchalkwyk, the University’s managing director of Environmental Health and Safety, to learn more about what Gov. Baker’s announcement means for the Harvard community.
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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
A community health advocate finds her voice
The COVID pandemic and anti-racism protests in 2020 gave Brett Dennis-Duke’s ongoing thesis work both urgency and perspective.
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Health
A key to the next pandemic: An early-warning system
How to stop a pandemic? Spot it early, let the pros spread the news, and engineer the heck out of it.
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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
High-speed internet at a crossroads
Jim Waldo assesses how the internet fared during the pandemic and how well it stood up to huge shifts of work, education, and commerce online.
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Nation & World
‘In India, anything and everything is a super-spreader event’
As COVID-19 cases in India soar and a new variant is identified, Harvard Chan School’s S.V. Subramanian offers some observations.
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Campus & Community
They studied medicine, and suddenly COVID too
HMS students share how coronavirus and the pandemic changed their expectations and experiences of the last year.
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Science & Tech
Why some die, some survive when equally ill from COVID-19
Researchers have identified a protein signature that may help answer the question, “Why do some patients die from COVID-19, while others — who appear to be just as ill — survive?”
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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.
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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 difficult financial year met with preparation, sacrifice, innovation, and teamwork
Since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak, the Gazette has periodically checked in with Thomas J. Hollister, Harvard’s vice president for finance and chief financial officer, for updates on how the pandemic has affected the University’s finances.
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Campus & Community
Pandemic from the rear-view mirror of an ambulance
The pandemic sent Jessica Miller ’21 home to West Virginia, where she found herself coping with remote classes while also helping her community through her work as an EMT. It helped her stay connected, she says.
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Health
With COVID spread, ‘racism — not race — is the risk factor’
Since the outset of the COVID-19 outbreak, public health experts have noted the disproportionate toll on Black and brown Americans. Those groups are at much greater risk of getting infected than white people; they are two to three times likelier to be hospitalized, and twice as likely to die, according to recent estimates from the…
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Campus & Community
My grandpa’s 100 hats
Shannon Freyer, an animal-care technician in Harvard’s Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, shares stories about her grandfather, who died on his 86th birthday due to COVID-19.