Turning the page in pandemic playbook

Risk assessment experts offer tips for balancing pandemic risks, as government restrictions ease.

Alvin Powell • harvard
Feb. 16, 2022 ~7 min

Mental health professionals push slow return post-COVID

A Harvard Chan School psychologist counseled awareness and flexibility as people return to work, school, or other pre-pandemic activities.

Alvin Powell • harvard
July 1, 2021 ~8 min


Is the slow approach to reopening schools failing kids?

Harvard Chan School’s Joseph Allen gives America an “F” on school reopening efforts, and says we’re in danger of losing thousands of virtual dropouts and wasting mild late summer/early autumn weather we could use to boost in-person learning.

Alvin Powell • harvard
Oct. 14, 2020 ~15 min

Data shows Americans moving around at near pre-pandemic rates

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.

Alvin Powell • harvard
June 24, 2020 ~5 min

Looking at COVID-19 through healthy-building eyes

Joseph Allen laid out how existing building safety guidelines might be adapted to make workplaces safer in the age of COVID.

Alvin Powell • harvard
April 24, 2020 ~6 min

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