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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 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 [...]

Are patients with hypertension and diabetes mellitus at increased risk for COVID-19 infection?

Preliminary evidence shows that patients with diabetes and/or hypertension are more likely to develop a severe infection from the novel coronavirus. Could a common drug used to treat both be the reason? HGHI’s Anders Gundersen reviews a new Lancet paper. [...]

Can SARS-CoV-2 contaminate hospitals?

By Anders Gundersen, HGHI | March 14, 2020 What do we know about how SARS-CoV-2 survives outside the human host in hospital settings? Transmission of COVID-19 within hospitals has been observed, but is is unclear how the virus was passed along. In a hospital in Singapore, researchers tested numerous sites in the rooms of three [...]