Assessing where vaccine efforts stand and the challenges ahead
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.
Alvin Powell •
harvard
May 8, 2020 • ~8 min
May 8, 2020 • ~8 min
How to prevent overwhelming hospitals and build immunity
Social distancing could allow a level of infection that can be handled by the health care system, but would build enough immunity to strangle the epidemic.
Alvin Powell
• harvard
March 27, 2020 • ~8 min
March 27, 2020 • ~8 min
Widespread, occasional use of antibiotics in U.S. linked with resistance
New Harvard Chan School study supports claims that antibiotic resistance in the U.S. is linked more closely to the widespread use of these drugs than to their heavy use among a small fraction of the population.
Karen Feldscher
• harvard
Dec. 18, 2018 • ~4 min
Dec. 18, 2018 • ~4 min
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