Finding ways to forge through the COVID-19 pandemic
Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch outlined several scenarios — most of them bad — for getting America back to work
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Public urged to ramp up social distancing, increase coronavirus tests
Harvard epidemiologist says U.S. needs to dramatically increase testing and social distancing, adding to the closings, cancellations, and shifts online.
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Hundreds of U.S. coronavirus cases may have slipped through screenings
Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch says two-thirds of travelers with coronavirus who are entering U.S. may have been missed by screening efforts.
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Officials say slow rollout of COVID-19 tests ineffective
A rapid expansion of coronavirus testing is needed to understand the extent and nature of the epidemic’s track in the U.S., Harvard experts said.
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Key coronavirus question: How are children affected?
A key unanswered question in the coronavirus epidemic concerns why children seem to be getting fewer or less-serious infections from the new contagion.
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Harvard expert says coronavirus likely now ‘gathering steam’
Harvard’s Marc Lipsitch said evidence indicates that the international cordon keeping coronavirus cases bottled up in China is a leaky one, and it’s likely that the relative handful of global cases reported so far are undercounted. If true, that will lead to widespread illness internationally, including in the U.S.
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Coronavirus outbreak: What we know and what we don’t know
As the number of coronavirus cases rapidly grows, the Gazette spoke with Professor of Epidemiology Marc Lipsitch, an expert in the spread of infectious disease and director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics.
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