Tag: social distancing
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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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Have yourself a happy, healthy pandemic Thanksgiving
Harvard psychiatric epidemiologist Karestan Koenen said acknowledging that this Thanksgiving will be hard is a first step toward a meaningful holiday.
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Healthy buildings expert outlines recommendations for school reopenings
As school officials worry about whether they can safely reopen their districts in the fall, Joseph Allen, a Harvard healthy buildings expert has an answer: yes.
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Lockdown? What lockdown?
Cellphone mobility data shows that most Americans have put the coronavirus lockdown in the rearview mirror and are moving about at nearly the same rate as they were before the pandemic began, according to a Harvard epidemiologist who studies such data.
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Americans are weary of lockdowns, but if COVID surges, what then?
If not a new lockdown, how do we slow the coronavirus in the future, researchers ask.
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Social distance makes the heart grow lonelier
Harvard experts suggest using creativity and looking out for others as ways to get over our own loneliness as keeping socially distanced grinds on.
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Harvard, in the background
Harvard’s best angles, to display in the background of conference calls.
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Notes from the new normal
What is normal in a quarantined world? Apparently, whatever you want it to be.
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On-again, off-again looks to be best social-distancing option
Social distancing could allow a level of infection that can be handled by the health care system, but would build enough immunity to strangle the epidemic.
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Harvard coronavirus survey: How’re we doing? Not bad so far
An ongoing survey by researchers at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative is examining public attitudes toward the coronavirus pandemic.
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Bringing (virtual) normalcy to the community
A roundup of efforts by the Harvard community to use the web to maintain connection and a sense of kinship.
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Could a new test identify immunity?
Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch outlined several scenarios — most of them bad — for getting America back to work
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Harvard museums temporarily close
Harvard Art Museums and others will temporarily close to the public beginning March 13 in an effort to slow the transmission of the COVID-19 virus.
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A big coronavirus mystery: What about the children?
A key unanswered question in the coronavirus epidemic concerns why children seem to be getting fewer or less-serious infections from the new contagion.
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