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Op-ed: How to protect from coronavirus in your car
Keeping your car windows open a crack is an easy way to minimize the risk of COVID-19 transmission when you’re driving, according to experts from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. COVID-19 can be spread not just…
Webcast: Addressing mental health during the COVID-19 outbreak in Africa as healthcare systems brace for a battering, 4/22/20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEfnTCYjMLc About this forum In this forum, Drs. Karestan Koenen and Bizu Gelaye host Dr. Bonga Chiliza from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa and Dr. Edith Kwobah from Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Kenya to…
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Press Conference with Bill Hanage, 04/22/20
You’re listening to a press conference from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health with Bill Hanage, associate professor of epidemiology. This call was recorded at 11:30 am Eastern Time on Wednesday, April 22. Previous press conferences…
The challenges of assessing coronavirus deaths
It’s difficult to know how many people are dying from COVID-19, mostly because of the lack of adequate testing for the disease, according to epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. For example, on…
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Press Conference with Richard Serino, 04/20/20
You’re listening to a press conference from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health with Richard Serino, distinguished visiting fellow at Harvard’s National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, former Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator, and former Chief of Boston…
New study sheds light on the spread and control of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China
A newly published analysis of 32,583 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases in Wuhan, China sheds light on the epidemiological characteristics of the disease and shows that numerous non-pharmaceutical interventions, including social distancing, centralized isolation and quarantine, and a door-to-door universal…
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Press Conference with Michael Mina, 04/17/20
You’re listening to a press conference from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health with Michael Mina, assistant professor of epidemiology. This call was recorded at 11:30 am Eastern Time on Friday, April 17. Previous press conferences…
Perspective: COVID-19 highlights pressing need to better understand immunity, particularly in elderly
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the vulnerability of aging populations to emerging diseases and underscores the significant need to better understand immunity and vaccine response among the elderly, according to an April 17, 2020 New England Journal of…
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Receives $1.4 Million to Accelerate Global Fight Against COVID-19
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 17, 2020 Contact Alison Cashin Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health acashin@hsph.harvard.edu Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics and Ariadne Labs receive capacity-building support for work against pandemic Cambridge, MA - Two centers at…
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Press Conference with Barry Bloom and Bill Hanage, 04/16/20
You’re listening to a press conference from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health with Barry Bloom, professor of immunology and infectious diseases and former dean of the school, and Bill Hanage, associate professor of epidemiology. This…