The Coronavirus Update

An op-ed that was cosigned by more than 5,000 researchers from universities around the globe, issued an urgent plea: We need to transform the way we work.

Q&A with Olga Jonas, an expert in managing the risks of pandemics, on the lessons governments can learn from the coronavirus pandemic.

COVID-19 pandemic spurs the creation of new, remote teaching methods at Harvard Medical School.

The Gazette spoke to Laboratory Reopening Planning Committee head Rick McCullough to learn more about Harvard’s decision to shut down its labs, the effects that had on research, and how the University plans to ensure a safe reopening.

Harvard Medical School Assistant Professor of Psychology Deirdre Barrett created an online survey to collect dreams of people during the pandemic.

Pardis Sabeti’s lab is a research hub on infectious diseases, including COVID-19.

MassCPR, a coalition of regional scientific institutions united to fight COVID-19, is awarding $16 million to 62 research projects with the promise to impact patient care within a year.

The Gazette asked alumni who are engaged in the battle against the novel coronavirus to share their experiences and how their work has radically changed.

An outpouring of volunteers and equipment from the Harvard medical community have helped a Harvard hospital testing lab meet COVID’s challenge.

Analysts in public health, politics, and technology discuss the “pandemic” of COVID-19 misinformation being shared around the world.

Experts at the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development look at COVID-19’s economic impact on Native American communities across the U.S.

Rising nationalism and global inequity will be hurdles to the distribution of COVID vaccines, despite the comparatively “lightning” fast scientific response to the pandemic so far, a Harvard infectious disease expert said Thursday.

A Harvard-based institute created a tool that harnesses big data to provide up-to-date information to policymakers, to measure the economic downturn.

Wilderness medicine fellows were among those whose attention has been turned homeward, where they’re pitching in to fight COVID-19 in the ER.

A new report by researchers examines the mostly overlooked, yet important, category of patients — those with symptoms concerning enough to seek care, yet not serious enough to need hospital treatment.

A Harvard expert in ethics and public policy talks about what pop culture says about pandemics, and our reactions to them.

Researcher Katharine Robb details how housing policies affect social and health crises, like the current pandemic.

Harvard experts suggest using creativity and looking out for others as ways to get over our own loneliness as keeping socially distanced grinds on.

COVID-19 spurs inspiration in student volunteers who find ways to make a difference amid the pandemic’s disruption and loss

Brothers Hassaan Ebrahim, a student at Harvard Kennedy School, and Senan, a third-year Harvard Medical School student, founded Hikma Health, a nonprofit that builds software for organizations providing health care to refugee populations.

A majority of people in the U.S. want to continue physical distancing measures, even as the federal government and some state governors are pushing to reopen the economy, according to a new national survey.

How Harvard faculty and staff continue to adapt to social distancing as they stay the course.

How We Feel app helps fill information gaps regarding the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Meet Katie Klatt — pediatric intensive care unit nurse, M.P.H. student at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and recovered COVID-19 patient.

Urgent-care physician Anita Chary has turned her attention to treating those suffering from COVID-19 in recent weeks.

In the second episode of Education Now, a new initiative by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, host Richard Weissbourd talks to Sonja Santelises, CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools, and Anu Ebbe, principal of Shorewood Hills Elementary School in Madison, Wis.

The CRISPR-based molecular diagnostics chip’s capacity ranges from detecting a single type of virus in more than 1,000 samples at a time to searching a small number of samples for more than 160 different viruses, including the COVID-19 virus.

How some Harvard professors are integrating the coronavirus crisis into their curricula.

The Wyss Institute has collaborated in the design of a new low-cost nasopharyngeal swabs that can be manufactured quickly to address the international shortage of swabs for testing and research.

As governors weigh when to allow businesses to reopen, Harvard faculty discuss which industries have been helped and hurt by the pandemic, and some of the hurdles surviving businesses will face to reverse their fortunes.