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Coronavirus (COVID-19): Press Conference with Michael Mina, 03/19/21
You're listening to a press conference from the Harvard School of Public Health with Michael Mina, assistant professor of epidemiology and a faculty member in the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics. This call was recorded at 1:00 p.m.…
How an open window can make a classroom safer from COVID-19
A New York Times simulation shows how proper ventilation and filtration in classrooms can make schools much safer from COVID-19 transmission. The visualization was created with input from healthy buildings expert Joseph Allen of Harvard Chan School.
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Press Conference with Yonatan Grad, 03/18/21
You’re listening to a press conference from the Harvard School of Public Health with Yonatan Grad, the Melvin J. and Geraldine L. Glimcher, assistant professor of immunology and infectious diseases and a faculty member in the Center for…
Mary Bassett talks vaccine confidence with Harlem fashion icon ‘Dapper Dan’
A new Vogue magazine video features Harlem-based fashion designer Daniel “Dapper Dan” Day and Harvard Chan School’s Mary Bassett discussing the importance of getting COVID-19 vaccines.
We’re better off when we stop pandemics before they start
When Aaron (Ari) Bernstein met his first pediatric patient infected with COVID-19, he realized that this little girl's health was connected to an infected bat on the other side of the world. Climate change and deforestation have made…
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Press Conference with Stephen Kissler, 03/12/21
You're listening to a press conference from the Harvard School of Public Health with Stephen Kissler, research fellow in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases. This call was recorded at 11 a.m. Eastern Time on Friday, March…
Perspective: How U.S. health policy may play out given partisan divide
Democrats’ and Republicans’ profound divisions on key issues of health care policy will play a large role in how the Biden administration and Congress address these issues in the near future, according to a new article by Harvard…
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Press Conference with Michael Mina, 03/10/21
You're listening to a press conference from the Harvard School of Public Health with Michael Mina, assistant professor of epidemiology and a faculty member in the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics. This call was recorded at 10 p.m.…
COVID-19 pandemic illuminates need to tackle obesity
People with obesity who catch COVID-19 are more likely to be admitted to the hospital and to die from the disease than those at lower weights, evidence suggests.
