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Tag: quarantine
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Nation & World
The main public health tool during 1918 pandemic? Social distancing
The Gazette looks at the history of social distancing, which, along with masks and vaccines, is still an effective strategy to stem the spread of COVID-19.
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Nation & World
Coronavirus likely now ‘gathering steam’
Harvard’s Marc Lipsitch said evidence indicates that the international cordon keeping coronavirus cases bottled up in China is a leaky one, and it’s likely that the relative handful of global cases reported so far are undercounted. If true, that will lead to widespread illness internationally, including in the U.S.
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Nation & World
Coronavirus cases hit 17,400 and are likely to surge
Harvard epidemiologist Michael Mina said as many as 100,000 people are likely already infected with the new coronavirus, with many more likely to come.
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Nation & World
Witness to anguish
Graduate School of Education alumna Jessi Hanson traveled to Liberia to help set up a program to provide art and play therapy to children held in isolation after their family members died from Ebola. She shared her experiences in Liberia — and now in self-quarantine in the United States — with the Gazette.
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Nation & World
Confronting Ebola
Three nonprofits with strong Harvard ties have joined forces at the front lines of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.
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Nation & World
Understanding Ebola
Though the threat to the U.S. population from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is low, the need in epidemic countries is great, says Michael VanRooyen, director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.
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Nation & World
Flu’s coming, but which kind?
With a new flu virus appearing in China in April and a new SARS-like respiratory ailment appearing in the Middle East, the Gazette sat down with Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch to talk about the upcoming flu season.
