The Coronavirus Update

Modeling study offers fresh insights into stealthy nature of coronavirus and how easily it jumps from person to person.

Edward Cunningham and Philip Jordan examine China’s post COVID-19 economic recovery in an effort to better understand what’s next for America’s own attempts to rebuild.

Alumni tackle issues worsened by the COVID-19 crisis, including domestic violence, clinical trial recruitment, and food insecurity.

Richard Weissbourd of the Graduate School of Education discusses what college admissions deans expect from applicants during the pandemic, and opportunities to reform the process.

Harvard Global Health Institute, the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, and more join to launch new COVID Risk Level map for policy makers and the public.

Experts on food insecurity and diet gathered at an online forum on Tuesday to discuss COVID-19’s impact on hunger in America, and ways to make the post-pandemic food landscape better than that before COVID struck.

Harvard researchers, drawing on insights from tuberculosis research, say air conditioners may be a factor in COVID-19’s spread down South, and relatively inexpensive germicidal ultraviolet lights a weapon.

Harvard public health experts said the U.S. coronavirus epidemic is getting “quite out of hand” and that lower death rates and younger populations testing positive should give no comfort.

As school officials worry about whether they can safely reopen their districts in the fall, Joseph Allen, a Harvard healthy buildings expert has an answer: yes.

As a result of COVID-19 shutdowns, a $15 billion loss in the primary care sector is expected to threaten practice viability, reducing further an already insufficient number of primary care providers in the United States.

Cellphone mobility data shows that most Americans have put the coronavirus lockdown in the rearview mirror and are moving about at nearly the same rate as they were before the pandemic began, according to a Harvard epidemiologist who studies such data.

Tracking mobility of individuals offers hints of whether a problem is rising or falling.

An interview with Harvard Law Professor Benjamin Sachs and HLS Lecturer Sharon Block about the legal workplace issues in the time of COVID-19.

Harvard’s Sociology Department and UNESCO look at rise in various aspects of racism.

Harvard economist and former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said we’re in greater danger of doing too little to fight COVID-19 than too much.

Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean announces three potential scenarios for fall in an interim report to the community Monday that also confirmed online teaching will continue for the upcoming academic year.

Opportunity Insights report suggests targeted social insurance programs may be more effective than U.S. economic recovery strategies.

If not a new lockdown, how do we slow the coronavirus in the future, researchers ask.

With a $16 million agreement from DARPA, Harvard’s Wyss Institute will use its technology to identify and test already FDA-approved drugs that may prevent or treat COVID-19 infection.

Several Harvard Schools announce plans to continue offering classes online for the fall term.

Since Harvard’s museums went online, staffs have tackled the enormous task of updating, adding, and editing data for millions of items housed in University collections.

As Harvard begins a phased reopening, University Librarian Martha Whitehead outlines how the libraries will reestablishes core services.

A new report published by the Brookings Institution estimates national health care spending for COVID-19 care and discusses its policy implications.

Researchers deploying a smartphone app to 2.6 million users have determined that the loss of smell and taste are most predictive symptoms of COVID-19.

A look at how the coronavirus pandemic upended classes and life at Harvard, when the University sent students back home and began online learning, in an extraordinary measure that has only one precedent in its 384-year history.

Anthony Fauci told mayors and city leaders at a seminar hosted at Harvard Kennedy School that they should “expect” to see new “blips of infections” as communities begin to reopen, but not to be “discouraged.”

An expert in romantic relationships talks about the ways couples can keep relationships healthy in the time of COVID-19.

Harvard Kennedy School economist Carmen Reinhart, an expert on financial crises who will become chief economist and vice president at the World Bank next month, discusses the outlook for the U.S. economy and the global challenges on the horizon.

Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has developed vaccines — currently being tested in animal models — that are designed to train the body’s immune system to recognize the virus swiftly upon exposure and respond quickly to disable it.

Summer message from a health expert: Go outside and play, but don’t forget about COVID.