The Coronavirus Update

Health experts, leaders, and staff offered input, helped devise Harvard’s coronavirus policy and procedures.

Harvard researchers looked at Katrina’s impact on children and how the lessons learned there could be applied to the COVID pandemic.

With 500,000 deaths due to COVID, the U.S. has become a nation in mourning, often alone, also dealing with the trauma of the pandemic’s other effects, a combination that worries mental health experts.

Can the current crop of vaccines get us to herd immunity even if variants become widespread? A Harvard immunologist says yes.

A Harvard epidemiologist said the forces of seasonality, slowly rising immunity, and shifting personal behavior will likely create a viral variant landscape with regional spikes in the months to come rather than a uniform national wave.

David Eaves, an expert on information technology and the government, discusses why governments seemingly struggle to implement tech tools such as vaccine appointments or health insurance enrollment.

We ask experts in the fields of medicine, biology, public health, education, religion about the unexpected upsides in the coronavirus pandemic.

As experts worry the COVID pandemic is triggering a loneliness epidemic, new Harvard research suggests some of the hardest hit are older teens and young adults.

Harvard scientists say airports are employing a layered approach to make air travel safer for those who must fly.

With new coronavirus variants on the U.S. pandemic scene, experts say brace yourself for another surge — and mask up.

As organizations prepare for a return to their old workplaces, Harvard Business School faculty say the pandemic has permanently changed the way we work.

Harvard Medical School Professor Dan Barouch said the “complicated pandemic” means more work lies ahead.

The coronavirus has had an unexpected mental health impact, striking hardest where its physical impacts are lowest: among youths and young adults.

Despite worries that a new coronavirus variant may be able to evade vaccines just being distributed, a Harvard public health expert expressed confidence in the same technology that produced the vaccines in record time.

Harvard researchers launched new disease-modeling app for colleges and universities.

The Gazette spoke with Giang Nguyen, executive director of Harvard University Health Services, about how the University prepared for the arrival of vaccine, where we are now in the process of vaccinating the Harvard community, and why it’s so important for everyone who is eligible to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

“Teaching and Learning at Harvard: Looking Back, Looking Forward” has Harvard deans looking at achievements and challenges from the past year.

Will the British variant’s transmissibility upset summer plans?

A biology-based mathematical model indicates why COVID-19 outcomes vary widely and how therapy can be tailored to match the needs of specific patient groups.

A new study has found that pregnant women with COVID-19 do not pass the virus to newborns, however, they may pass fewer-than-expected antibodies to newborns.

Seasonal changes in UV may alter the spread of COVID but not as much as social distancing.

Fauci predicted herd immunity by next fall and “normality” by 2021’s end, as long as enough people get vaccinated to bring the pandemic to an end.

Evidence of a post-Thanksgiving surge should be emerging this week, a Harvard epidemiologist said, advising people who gathered together to get tested or assume they’re infected.

The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies and Center for Geographic Analysis worked with Microsoft to create a live tracker that monitors the status of COVID cases, broken down by congressional district, to help officials develop testing and vaccine deployment strategies in their areas.

Experts said the complex rollout of a coronavirus vaccine gives the U.S. a chance for a win after the virus gained the upper hand in its initial phase.

Two Harvard alumni created the Bridging Borders Project to assemble the perspectives of world leaders and exchange health policy ideas about the pandemic.

Barry Bloom from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health offers context about the news that two experimental vaccines appear to confer a high level of protection from the coronavirus.

Harvard psychiatric epidemiologist Karestan Koenen said acknowledging that this Thanksgiving will be hard is a first step toward a meaningful holiday.

Massachusetts General Hospital researchers examined six patients using a specialized magnetic resonance technique and found that COVID-19 patients with neurological symptoms show some of the same metabolic disturbances in the brain as patients who have suffered oxygen deprivation from other causes.

For COVID-19, the difference between surviving and not surviving severe disease may be due to the quality, not the quantity, of the patients’ antibody development and response, suggests a new study.