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The latest on the coronavirus
Harvard Chan School experts offer comments and context about the coronavirus in a variety of media outlets.
Why we have trouble assessing climate risk
Experts quoted in a January 23, 2022 CNN article talked about why humans do a poor job of evaluating climate risk, how they tend to avoid an overload of distressing information, and how it’s crucial to better communicate…
Opinion: Vaccinate the vulnerable to end the pandemic
Vaccines remain the best hope for protecting people around the globe from COVID-19 and for taming the pandemic, according to an opinion piece co-authored by two students and an alumnus from Harvard Chan School.
Science unclear around fourth COVID-19 shot
Several countries have authorized second booster shots of COVID-19 vaccine, but concerns have recently been raised about whether this is a useful approach.
What will Omicron’s decline look like? Hard to say.
Although Omicron appears to have peaked in several urban centers on the East Coast, experts aren’t sure what the coronavirus variant’s downward path will look like across the U.S.
Rebuilding community life post-pandemic may boost health and wellbeing
As people look ahead to the end of the immediate health crisis, it’s important to consider how communities can be rebuilt and created, according to Tyler VanderWeele, John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology at…
Pandemic shining a light on need for better postpartum mental health care
The number of people suffering from mental health conditions has skyrocketed during the pandemic, but evidence suggests that pregnant and recently pregnant people have been hit particularly hard.
An effort to ‘supercharge’ disease forecasting
A new federal center aims to help the nation better forecast future waves of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as outbreaks of other diseases.
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Press Conference with Joseph Allen, 12/14/21
You're listening to a press conference from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health with Joseph Allen, associate professor of Exposure Assessment Science and director of the Healthy Buildings Program. This call was recorded at 11:30 a.m.…
Kizzmekia Corbett among 2021 Bostonians of the Year
Kizzmekia Corbett, assistant professor of immunology and infectious diseases at Harvard Chan School, was named one of the 2021 Bostonians of the Year by the Boston Globe for her pioneering research aimed at developing a COVID-19 vaccine and…
