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N.C.A.A. Crisis Shows How Biden’s Surgeon General Pick Navigated the Pandemic

The New York Times | 12.10.2020

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Surgeon General nominee speaks at Harvard Medical and Dental Schools’ Class Day

Campus COVID Testing Advocate Chosen to Head CDC

Inside Higher Ed | 12.7.2020

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Harvard Business School Halts Hybrid Classes

Trump Administration Declines to Tighten Soot Rules, Despite Link to Covid Deaths

The New York Times | 12.7.2020

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Ask a Harvard Professor with Francesca Dominici

Biden picks MGH infectious diseases chief Rochelle Walensky to oversee CDC

The Boston Globe | 12.6.2020

Why Did Racial Progress Stall in America?

The New York Times | 12.6.2020

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Review of new Putnam and Garrett book, “The Upswing,” by Idrees Kahloon

Why Do So Many Americans Think the Election Was Stolen?

The New York Times | 12.6.2020

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Ross Douthat’s conservative conservatism, a profile by Lydialyle Gibson

‘Makes you ask why the hell we even bother.’ Infectious disease experts face disillusionment as COVID-19 pandemic worsens

The Boston Globe | 12.6.2020

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: New Test Paradigm Needed for SARS-CoV-2

Atul Gawande on Coronavirus Vaccines and Prospects for Ending the Pandemic

The New Yorker | 12.3.2020

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Atul Gawande: Surgeon, Health-Policy Scholar, and Writer

The Battle Over Scalia’s Legacy

The New York Review | 12.2.2020

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Constitutional scholar Noah Feldman profiled by Lincoln Caplan

Harvard’s spring pandemic plan could double the number of undergraduates on campus

The Washington Post | 12.1.2020

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Harvard College Juniors Seniors Back to Campus Spring Semester