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HGHI, HU CFAR Host Virtual Grand Rounds on Lessons from HIV for Global Equity During Pandemics

Ongoing global Covid-19 vaccine and therapeutic inequities threaten to prolong and exacerbate the pandemic for all countries. As advocates, academics, and policymakers alike call for the U.S. and other wealthy nations to share these lifesaving resources with the world, it is prudent to consider the lessons learned from the HIV pandemic that can be translated

HGHI and NPR publish new state testing targets

By Ashish K. Jha, Benjamin Jacobson, Stefanie Friedhoff and Thomas Tsai, HGHI Ten days ago, the Harvard Global Health Institute published data looking at how many tests each state should be doing as part of their strategy to begin a slow re-opening around May 1, based on the size of their coronavirus outbreak at the time (see [...]

Analysis: Find out if your state falls short on testing needed to open up in early May

More than half of U.S. states will have to significantly step up their Covid-19 testing to even consider starting to relax stay-at-home orders after May 1, according to a new analysis by the Harvard Global Health Institute and STAT. [...]

Why do we still need testing?

By Ashish K. Jha, Faculty Director, HGHI Over the past few days, many federal policymakers have been arguing that testing is overblown as an issue – that it is not so important or that we are doing enough. These are two separate issues. Is testing really important? And if yes, are we doing enough? [...]

Why we need at least 500,000 tests per day to open the economy — and stay open

By Ashish K. Jha, Thomas Tsai and Benjamin Jacobson, HGHI Ubiquitous testing is essential to the nation’s ability to succeed with the planned phased opening of the economy and to stay open (we explain why we need testing in this post). In our analysis below, we estimate that the number of tests needed every day is, [...]

HGHI Partners with Google Cloud to Award Cloud Research Credits

The Harvard Global Health Institute is partnering with Google Cloud to enable researchers to harness the power of the Cloud in their fight against COVID-19. [...]

Hospital Capacity, Part II: How prepared is Canada?

Following up on our model projecting hospital capacity in communities throughout the United States, we have a new model out that provides similar assessments for Canada. [...]

State Snapshot: California – A Tale of Two Cities

As the coronavirus continues to sweep across the United States, one question is on everyone’s mind: Where are different communities in the cycle of the pandemic, and how bad will it get? To find answers, state governments and research groups are now collecting detailed testing and hospitalization data that can help assess how each state [...]

One mask per shift, the mental health impact of COVID-19: Q&A with a New York City primary care physician

We spoke with an attending physician about current hospital working conditions, PPE availability, and medical didactics during the rise of the COVID-19 outbreak in New York City. They kindly answered our most pressing questions; in turn, we honored their request to remain anonymous. [...]

Where are the ventilators?

“We can’t wait until capacity has already been overloaded before requesting extra machines – we have to act now based on the best available data. If we don’t, the surge in COVID-19 patients May result in rationing care and unnecessary deaths.” [...]

SARS 1 vs. SARS 2: Does the new virus live longer on surfaces?

Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1 NEJM | Doremalen et al. | Mar. 17, 2020 The aim of this recent publication was to determine how long SARS-CoV-2 could survive in the air and on various surfaces. The authors compare the length of SARS-CoV-2 survival to SARS-CoV-1 (measured by the amount of [...]