Student project on understanding emerging diseases via internet searches

A College senior’s research project has shown a way to more quickly understand the characteristics of emerging diseases, by examining global internet searches for symptoms.

Alvin Powell • harvard
May 24, 2021 ~6 min

Michael Mina shares insight on how to prevent another pandemic

How to stop a pandemic? Spot it early, let the pros spread the news, and engineer the heck out of it.

Alvin Powell • harvard
May 19, 2021 ~19 min


Computer science expert reviews a pandemic-stressed internet

The Paulson School’s Jim Waldo assesses how the internet fared during the pandemic and how well it stood up to huge shifts of work, education, and commerce online.

Alvin Powell • harvard
May 18, 2021 ~17 min

Human organ chips enable rapid drug repurposing for COVID-19

A Wyss Institute-led collaboration has used the institute’s organ-on-a-chip technology to identify the antimalarial drug amodiaquine as a potent inhibitor of infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

Lindsay Brownell • harvard
May 3, 2021 ~18 min

Fauci discusses uncertainty on COVID-19 variants, length of immunity

Though the so-far-successful U.S. vaccination drive is likely to deliver an approximation of normal life by year’s end, Anthony Fauci and a panel of heath care experts cautioned that the global battle against COVID-19 is far from won.

Alvin Powell • harvard
April 27, 2021 ~8 min

Harvard panel looks for way forward on climate change

If the causes and problems of climate change are entwined, then the solutions must be as well, according to an online panel of Harvard faculty.

Clea Simon • harvard
March 26, 2021 ~6 min

Young adults hardest hit by loneliness during pandemic, study finds

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.

Colleen Walsh • harvard
Feb. 17, 2021 ~5 min

Dan Barouch discusses new coronavirus variants

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

Alvin Powell • harvard
Feb. 1, 2021 ~13 min


Pandemic pushing people to the breaking point, say experts

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

Alvin Powell • harvard
Jan. 27, 2021 ~6 min

Coronavirus variant dampens prospects for return to normal

Will the British variant’s transmissibility upset summer plans?

Alvin Powell • harvard
Jan. 6, 2021 ~7 min

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