COVID-19 vaccine experts talk lessons learned, challenges ahead. This article is part of Harvard Medical School’s continuing coverage of medicine, biomedical research, medical education, and policy related to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and the disease COVID-19.
Center Director, Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D. answers questions from PBS NewsHour’s William Brangham and viewers about how the COVID-19 pandemic and the long period of social distancing is affecting children and families.
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A new review from a team led by Harvard Medical School allergists based at Massachusetts General Hospital offers reassurance that the two currently approved COVID-19 vaccines can be administered safely even to people with food or medication allergies. The findings are published online in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.
Research has found a specific kind of heart disease in people who have recovered from COVID-19. Myocarditis can cause serious complications, including in athletes. Dr. Haider Warraich, a cardiologist and researcher at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, joins CBSNews AM to talk more about the illness.
For Black and Latinx participants, watching public health video messages recorded by a diverse set of physicians reduces COVID-19 knowledge gaps, according to a study published online Dec. 21 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Marcella Alsan, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and colleagues conducted a randomized trial … Continued
Dealing with a global pandemic has taken a toll on the mental health of millions of people. A team of MIT and Harvard University researchers has shown that they can measure those effects by analyzing the language that people use to express their anxiety online. Using machine learning to analyze the text of more than 800,000 … Continued
A survey released November 23 found high levels of vaccine hesitancy among communities of color. Even though early data on experimental COVID-19 vaccines looks promising, “It’s not having a vaccine that saves lives, it’s people actually getting vaccinated‚” said Dean Michelle Williams, who co-founded the COVID Collaborative, the nonprofit that commissioned the study.
Transmission risks of COVID-19 during airline flights are very low and below other routine activities during the pandemic such as grocery shopping or going out to dinner, when using face coverings and taking other steps, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health said Tuesday. The report found after airlines mandated masks, boosted cleaning procedures … Continued
A Harvard researcher who looked at the life expectancy of 200,000 Americans who have died from the coronavirus estimates COVID-19 has cost the United States 2.5 million years of life. The researcher, molecular biologist and geneticist Stephen Elledge, is the Gregor Mendel Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, both … Continued