Tag: COVID-19
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Science & Tech
An emergency response team for data?
Data science provides a foundation for an important front in the battle against COVID-19. The Harvard Data Science Review, a journal of the Harvard Data Science Initiative, is helping keep data scientists connected and up to date on the latest findings.
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Health
Curating the experience of Black America in the age of pandemic
To document the effects of COVID-19 on Black Americans, two colleagues and friends created an open-source library guide to serve as a repository of material and a platform to start a dialogue.
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Campus & Community
University to begin transition to unobserved COVID-19 testing
After approval from the FDA, Harvard University will begin to transition to unobserved, self-administered COVID-19 screening tests for all individuals authorized to live or be on campus as part of continued efforts to monitor and control the virus.
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Campus & Community
An empty square, a full summer, teaching tuba
In “Postcards From Home,” three students share thoughtful insights on how the pandemic is changing their lives and those around them.
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Health
Strong signals
Study findings support use of county-level cell phone location data as tool to estimate future trends of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Nation & World
Why some Americans refuse to social distance and wear masks
Michael Sandel offers up his thoughts on what we owe others in the age of coronavirus.
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Health
The value of talking to strangers — and nodding acquaintances
How COVID-19 is evaporating our casual connections and taking an important source of happiness.
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Health
Breathing freely
Mass General study shows the benefits of inhaled nitric oxide therapy for pregnant patients with severe and critical COVID-19.
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Campus & Community
Using data science for social good
In April, the Harvard College Data Analytics Group, a student-led nonprofit organization, created 17 COVID-19 response teams that partnered with 16 organizations and municipal governments to tackle elements of the COVID-19 crisis.
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Campus & Community
In a word
Stories from Harvard faculty, students, staff about writing’s place in a pandemic and playing host to Renée Fleming.
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Health
$30M commitment supports development of therapies for viral infections
Harvard University and AbbVie have announced a $30 million collaborative research alliance to study and develop novel therapies against emergent viral infections, with a focus on those caused by coronaviruses and by viruses that lead to hemorrhagic fever.
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Nation & World
Staying covered
Affordable Care Act key to keeping people insured amid COVID 19-related job losses, study shows.
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Campus & Community
Steps for students returning to campus
Provost Alan M. Garber and Executive Director of Harvard University Health Services Giang Nguyen outline details of plan to bring students back on campus safely.
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Health
Children’s role in spread of virus bigger than thought
A new study has found that children infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 were shown to have a significantly higher level of virus in their airways than hospitalized adults in ICUs for COVID-19 treatment.
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Science & Tech
Putting a crown on OMNIVAX
A biomaterials-based infection vaccine strategy shows first promise in eliciting immunity against SARS-CoV-2 and could be applied broadly to stave off infectious disease.
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Health
Medical immersion for students shifts online in pandemic
Students from as far away as Africa and Asia are benefiting from a COVID-prompted shift online of an HMS program that gives high schoolers a taste of life in the exam room.
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Science & Tech
7 million face shields and counting
The Wyss Institute made improvements to its face shields based on recommendations from area hospitals. Joining forces with a Mansfield, Mass.-based manufacturer, the institute’s face shields are now being produced at a rate of 400,000 a day.
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Health
Soothing advice for mad America
The anger you’re seeing in the nation and your neighborhood — call it pandemic rage — is not in your imagination, according to a McLean hospital psychologist, who explains where it comes from and how to fight it.
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Health
Cheap, frequent COVID tests could be ‘akin to vaccine,’ professor says
Shifting the U.S.’s COVID-19 testing strategy to emphasize inexpensive, daily tests would break national transmission chains within weeks, an infectious disease testing expert said.
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Campus & Community
Testing for COVID, ensuring safety
Harvard is testing those who return regularly to campus for COVID-19 at two locations, including Harvard Stadium in Allston. Here are photos of how it’s working.
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Health
Five simple steps would tame COVID-19
Anthony Fauci, one of the government’s top authorities on the coronavirus pandemic, said that simple measures including wearing masks, avoiding bars, and spending time outdoors can tame the pandemic, but only if widely adopted.
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Health
Time to resume COVID restrictions in some safe states?
Officials in states that appear to have COVID-19 under control should keep an eye on a slow rise in cases, and take the chance to enact modest measures before case numbers begin to rise rapidly again, a Harvard expert said.
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Campus & Community
Gearing up for a consequential fall
Harvard faculty shape online classes to engage with COVID, race reckoning, election, and beyond.
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Health
Single-shot COVID-19 vaccine proves successful with primates
A single-shot COVID-19 vaccine is being developed by scientists led by a Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center immunologist.