Tag: Pandemic
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Health
COVID-19 and cancer
Study represents the most comprehensive scientific survey to date about the interrelationship between COVID-19 and cancer.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Worldwide Week truly goes global
Now in its fourth year, Harvard Worldwide Week goes entirely online for the first time, allowing participants to visit affiliates around the world
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Science & Tech
Infection detection
“Viral history” tool VirScan offers new insights into antibody response to SARS-CoV-2.
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Work & Economy
Disruption of work relationships adds to mental-health concerns during pandemic
COVID-related workplace interventions have focused on workers’ physical health, but a new study shows that attention should be paid to replacing workplace social networks also disrupted by the virus.
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Campus & Community
‘Find your way to heal this world’
In the University’s first-ever virtual first-year Convocation, President Lawrence S. Bacow on Tuesday urged the Class of 2024 to “find your way to heal this world.”
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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
Staying covered
Affordable Care Act key to keeping people insured amid COVID 19-related job losses, study shows.
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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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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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Nation & World
Insights into online learning
Pioneering online-learning initiative edX offers guidance and support as colleges sort out fall plans.
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Health
How COVID-19 causes smell loss
New study finds olfactory support cells, not neurons, are vulnerable to novel coronavirus infection.
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Health
‘Before a tsunami hits’
Seven researchers discuss the importance of COVID-19 research and pandemic preparedness, the value of teamwork, and the fragility of life.
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Nation & World
Examining COVID’s impact on Asians and Pacific Islanders
Harvard’s Sociology Department and UNESCO look at rise in various aspects of racism.
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Nation & World
Why America can’t escape its racist roots
Interview with Orlando Patterson, a historical and cultural sociologist, about the killing of George Floyd and how it exposed the deep roots of racism in American society.
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Health
Adding up the cost of pandemic health care
A new report published by the Brookings Institution estimates national health care spending for COVID-19 care and discusses its policy implications.
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Health
Love in the time of COVID
An expert in romantic relationships talks about the ways couples can keep relationships healthy in the time of COVID-19.
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Work & Economy
‘If it’s not over on the disease … it’s not over on the balance sheet’
Harvard Kennedy School economist Carmen Reinhart, an expert on financial crises who will become chief economist and vice president at the World Bank next month, discusses the outlook for the U.S. economy and the global challenges on the horizon.
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Nation & World
‘The lesson is to never forget’
Q&A with Olga Jonas, an expert in managing the risks of pandemics, on the lessons governments can learn from the coronavirus pandemic.
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Campus & Community
Feeling renewed connection to family and neighbors
Gabrielle Donaldson ’23 describes how things are going now that she’s back home in Raleigh, N.C., during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Campus & Community
Getting handwritten letters make friends feel less far away
Integrative biology concentrator Allison Law ’20 describes how things are going now that she’s back home in Natick, Mass., during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Campus & Community
Wishing there’d been just a little more time to savor senior year on campus
Neuroscience concentrator Hayoung Ahn describes how things are going in Queens, N.Y., now that she’s back home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Health
The mother of invention
COVID-19 pandemic spurs the creation of new, remote teaching methods at Harvard Medical School.
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Nation & World
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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Work & Economy
Real-time data to address real-time problems
A Harvard-based institute created a tool that harnesses big data to provide up-to-date information to policymakers, to measure the economic downturn.
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Campus & Community
Helping to feed the community
Harvard University Dining Services has emptied its freezers and storerooms to provide food to area nonprofit grocery programs.
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Arts & Culture
Why so many of us are watching films like ‘Outbreak’
A Harvard expert in ethics and public policy talks about what pop culture says about pandemics, and our reactions to them.