Tag: Pandemic
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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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Forward thinker
As campus life resumes, President Larry Bacow says he hopes lessons learned from the pandemic can help us navigate challenges and seize opportunities.
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How to help your kids with classroom anxieties
Experts from the Harvard Graduate School of Education offer advice to parents and teachers on how to ease student anxiety as another pandemic school year begins.
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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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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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Reaching people where they live and die
Robert Blendon examined the divide among Americans over vaccine mandates.
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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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Why all the abuse of servers, flight staffs, sales clerks as COVID rules ease?
Ryan W. Buell discusses what’s behind the sudden spike in customer rage at service workers and what firms can do to support their employees.
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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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A key inflation index leaps. Getting worried?
Economist Kenneth Rogoff discusses how consumers’ perceptions about inflation are an important factor that influences inflationary cycles.
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Assessing the delta variant
Coronavirus ultimately not over, says Harvard Chan School’s William Hanage.
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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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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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The future of teaching and learning
The Harvard Task Force on the Future of Teaching and Learning was created to explore how the University can build on learnings from remote teaching during the pandemic.
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Racial wealth gap may be a key to other inequities
The wealth gap between Black and white Americans is examined in this installment of the “Unequal” series.
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Tracking progression of disease through internet searches for symptoms
A College senior’s research project has shown a way to more quickly understand the characteristics of emerging diseases, by examining global internet searches for symptoms.
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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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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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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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Is inflation a problem now? Maybe, but more likely not
Alberto F. Cavallo talks about what’s driving prices up, how far they may still go, and what COVID has revealed about the U.S. economy.
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‘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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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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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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‘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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A teacher for 40 years and a neighborhood ‘den mother’
Ronald Chandler remembers his mother, Carol Marie Chandler.
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‘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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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.