The Coronavirus Update

Physicians caring for different populations in three hospitals describe life in the midst of a pandemic.

Early data from peer-reviewed studies suggest that one-third of hospitalized COVID-19 patients of all ages, and two-thirds of those with severe disease, show signs of delirium.

As cases of coronavirus surge in Africa, the challenges experienced elsewhere are compounded by social factors and a shortage of caregivers.

Joseph Allen laid out how existing building safety guidelines might be adapted to make workplaces safer in the age of COVID.

Students in Mark Fagan’s supply chain management course spent the spring semester using their skills to help the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis.

Virtual workout classes help the community stay connected and healthy while social distancing.

Director William “Ned” Friedman explains the rationale for keeping the Arboretum open during the pandemic.

Socialize Remotely allows students, faculty, and staff to continue attending a range of extracurricular activities, and to connect.

Harvard Professor Michael Sandel led a campuswide audience in a Zoom event, “Harvard Live: Pandemic Ethics.”

Uncertainty, unemployment, and ill health are combining to feed a rise in concern about America’s mental health as people shelter from the coronavirus and each other, a Harvard Chan School psychiatric epidemiologist said Thursday.

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health hosted an online forum on “Coronavirus, social distancing, and acute insomnia: How to avoid chronic sleep problems before they get started.”

Harvard researchers are turning to two common cold viruses to learn lessons about how the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 might behave in the coming months.

Harvard scholars discuss health care disparities in the age of coronavirus.

Harvard students and faculty offer glimpses into their lives during social distancing.

Heart damage has recently emerged as yet another grim outcome in the virus’s repertoire of possible complications.

Team at Harvard plans to launch a clinical trial for a potential COVID-19 vaccine in the fall.

An initiative to accelerate the Massachusetts’ efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 by dramatically scaling up the state’s capacity for contact tracing is being done through a new collaboration with Partners In Health in which Harvard Medical School faculty will play key leadership roles.

During a virtual seminar Thursday, more than 750 officials from 400 U.S. cities got advice from top executives who led the nation’s last public health crisis, the Ebola epidemic, on how to help their cities cope and prepare for reopening in the coming weeks or months.

Q&A with Harvard’s Paul Reville about the impact of the coronavirus on education.

A Q&A with Harvard University Health Services’ Executive Director Giang Nguyen about the steps taken to move as much care online as it could as the novel coronavirus approached. He also outlines new resources available to the Harvard community.

Working in real time, Harvard researchers are surveying correctional facilities to find out how U.S. prisons and jails are being affected by the pandemic.

Temporary suspension of construction work by the city of Boston has pushed back the planned fall opening of Harvard’s Science and Engineering Complex in Allston until next spring semester.

With everything from hugs to funerals now forbidden or unrecognizable, a Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health online forum focused on “How the Discomfort of Grief Can Help Us: Recognizing and Adapting to Loss During the COVID-19 Outbreak.”

A top emergency-preparedness official with Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital says recent modeling shows social distancing is working to flatten the curve.

Harvard and EdX, the virtual learning platform founded by Harvard and MIT, announced the launch of a free online course designed to train frontline medical professionals to operate the mechanical ventilators needed to treat COVID-19 patients.

Further research and development on a class of molecules called bisphosphonates might turbocharge a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus, and help bring immunity to huge populations more quickly.

While the majority of the Wyss Institute is working remotely, a small but dedicated team is still coming into the lab to help treat and cure COVID-19.

A look at how Harvard University Information Technology helped the University, including the College and 12 graduate Schools, move all classes online.

According to Harvard’s Joe Allen, coronavirus is likely being transmitted in buildings through ventilation systems. But there are ways to minimize risks.

One Harvard student describes what life is like on a deserted campus while another shares his experience going home and the adjustments the followed.