Chan School hosts online meetings to discuss updates
This is part of our Coronavirus Update series in which Harvard specialists in epidemiology, infectious disease, economics, politics, and other disciplines offer insights into what the latest developments in the COVID-19 outbreak may bring. How can we cope personally with the COVID-19 health crisis? How do we explain quarantine to our children? Maintain relationships as we are forced to stay apart? These and other issues will be the topics of weekly online forums hosted by Karestan Koenen, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology, on the cloud-based Zoom meeting app Wednesdays at 11 a.m. starting March 18. (The hourlong forums will also be recorded.) This new series is open to the public and can be accessed via the Chan School’s website. It grew out of a casual online meetup last week. Originally planned as a discussion among colleagues, it drew an audience so large — and global —...