Explore op-eds written by CCDD faculty below. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order and updated daily.
January 2023 – Present
- COVID-19, flu, RSV: How wastewater monitoring can save lives as America faces the next ‘tripledemic’October 16
- Bill Hanage for Fortune
- Learning From COVID-19 to Improve Surveillance for Emerging ThreatsApril 5
- Marc Lipsitch for AJPH
January 2022 – December 2022
- Why Every Body CountsAugust 16
- Caroline Buckee for PLOS Blogs
- Wrong question and the wrong standard of proofJune 1
- Marc Lipsitch for Journal of Medical Ethics
- Where is the next SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern?May 21
- Bill Hanage for The Lancet
- From ‘herd immunity’ to today, Covid minimisers are still sabotaging our pandemic progressMarch 29
- Bill Hanage for The Guardian
- A peek into Pfizer’s hyper pursuit of a vaccine March 25
- Bill Hanage for The Washington Post
- After Omicron, This Pandemic Will Be DifferentJanuary 19
- Bill Hanage for The New York Times
- This is the action Britain must take to limit the damage of OmicronJanuary 5
- Bill Hanage for The Guardian
- The best-case scenario with omicron will still be badDecember 21
- Bill Hanage for The Washington Post
- Omicron is spreading at an alarming rate, and there’s no solid evidence it’s ‘milder’December 21
- Bill Hanage for The Guardian
- Let’s Not Be Fatalistic About Omicron. We Know How to Fight ItDecember 15
- Bill Hanage for Time
- Rapid Tests Are the Answer to Living With Covid-19October 1
- Michael Mina for The New York Times
- The U.S. Needs an Operation Warp Speed for Rapid COVID-19 TestingSeptember 10
- Michael Mina for Time
- This one simple trick will not end the pandemicAugust 31
- Bill Hanage for The Washington Post
- Why Provincetown’s Response to Its Covid Outbreak Was So EffectiveAugust 27
- Bill Hanage for The New York Times
- People are more anti-vaccine if they get their COVID news from Facebook rather than from Fox News, data showsJuly 27
- Mauricio Santillana for The Washington Post
- Witnessing England’s response to COVID at first hand has profoundly shocked meJuly 22
- Bill Hanage for The Guardian
- How Trump’s blunders fueled our coronavirus nightmareJune 25
- Bill Hanage for The Washington Post
- The evidence is clear – there was no excuse for Hancock’s care homes strategyJune 17
- Bill Hanage for The Guardian
- The Olympics can be held safely even amid the pandemicJune 15
- Michael Mina for CNN
- The pandemic is much less dangerous now — but not for all of usJune 11
- Bill Hanage for The Washington Post
- Test everyone once a weekJune 9
- Michael Mina for The Times of India
- We’re part of a planning group for a COVID-19 commission. Here’s why we need oneJune 2
- Marc Lipsitch for The Washington Post
- Covid-19 cases will likely rise again in the fall. Here’s how to keep schools openJune 1
- Michael Mina for The Washington Post
- The U.S. May Never Hit the Herd Immunity Threshold. That’s OKMay 28
- Marc Lipsitch for The New York Times
- Our Eyes on the Virus: Why We Still Need Widespread Rapid Testing Even With VaccinesMay 25
- Michael Mina for TIME
- Let’s finally get COVID-19 testing rightMay 25
- Stephen Kissler for The Hill
- The trouble with mandatory coronavirus testing in nursing homesMay 19
- Michael Mina for The Boston Globe
- Covid-19: We must put in place a financial plan of action for achieving vaccine equityMay 19
- Marc Lipsitch for BMJ Opinion
- There have been many failures over Covid. We cannot afford to forget themMarch 22
- Bill Hanage for The Guardian
- We’ll Probably Never Eliminate COVID-19 from the U.S. It’s Still Worth TryingFebruary 25
- Bill Hanage for TIME
- Virus variants have us back where we were a year agoFebruary 4
- Bill Hanage for The Washington Post
- The United States should look to Liverpool as a model for frequent rapid Covid testingJanuary 12
- Michael Mina for Liverpool Express
- With England in lockdown 3, it’s time ministers got it right on face masksJanuary 21
- Bill Hanage for The Guardian
- We lost to SARS-CoV-2 in 2020. We can defeat B-117 in 2021January 9
- Marc Lipsitch for STAT News
- Can We Do Twice as Many Vaccinations as We Thought?December 18
- Michael Mina for The New York Times
- The Year of Covid. And (Hopefully) the Year of Easy, Home-Based TestingDecember 11
- Michael Mina for The Wall Street Journal
- How We Can Stop the Spread of COVID-19 By ChristmasNovember 17
- Michael Mina for TIME
- SARS-CoV-2 Is Behaving Like a Textbook VirusNovember 9
- Michael Mina for Medium Coronavirus Blog
- Universal Testing To End The PandemicNovember 6
- Michael Mina for Health Affairs
- Confused About Where to Get Public Health Guidance on the Coronavirus? You’re Not AloneOctober 27
- Bill Hanage for The National Interest
- Who Qualifies as an “Expert” And How Can We Decide Who Is Trustworthy?October 14
- Caroline Buckee for LeapsMag
- Trump wants to try for herd immunity. Without a vaccine, it could kill millionsOctober 14
- Marc Lipsitch for The Washington Post
- Americans, we can fight COVID-19 and save lives now. Wear a mask!October 8
- Marc Lipsitch for USA Today
- Beat Covid Without a VaccineOctober 1
- Michael Mina for The Wall Street Journal
- Britain’s failure to learn the hard lessons of its first Covid surge is a disasterSeptember 27
- Bill Hanage for The Guardian
- How to fix public health weaknesses before the next pandemic hitsSeptember 24
- Marc Lipsitch and Yonatan Grad for The Washington Post
- COVID-19 Data Dives: The Perfect COVID Test Should Not Be Our Only GoalAugust 28
- Bill Hanage for Medscape
- What the CDC’s Guidelines for Polling Places Are MissingAugust 20
- Bill Hanage for Politico
- COVID-19 Data Dives: The Many Ways Opening Schools Could Go WrongAugust 11
- Bill Hanage for Medscape
- The True Cost of Vaccine StudiesAugust 1
- Marc Lipsitch for The New York Review of Books
- How a Public Health Crisis Becomes a Public Trust CrisisJuly 20
- Mauricio Santillana for RealClear Politics via The 50-State Survey Consortium Team
- COVID-19 Data Dives: It’s a Wildfire, Not a WaveJuly 7
- Bill Hanage for MedScape
- A Cheap, Simple Way to Control the CoronavirusJuly 3
- Michael Mina for The New York Times
- We can reopen schools in the fall — if we close bars and gyms nowJuly 1
- Bill Hanage for The Washington Post
- Policies for a second waveJune 25
- Michael Mina for Brookings
- We’re pretending the virus is gone. That’ll make it worseJune 20
- Bill Hanage for The Washington Post
- ‘Unwitting Transmission’: No One Means to Spread COVID-19June 12
- Bill Hanage for MedScape
- Racism is a deadly virus, too: A public health defense of these mass protestsJune 5
- Caroline Buckee for NY Daily News
- Saving the Most Vulnerable from COVID-19June 2
- Michael Mina for Project Syndicate
- COVID-19 Data Dives: Airborne Transmission Increases With CrowdingMay 23
- Bill Hanage for MedScape
- Treating Mild Coronavirus Cases Could Help Save EveryoneMay 22
- Marc Lipsitch for The New York Times
- The trouble with mandatory coronavirus testing in nursing homesMay 19
- Michael Mina for The Boston Globe
- COVID-19 Data Dives: Are the Results From Antibody Tests Overly Optimistic?May 18
- Bill Hanage for MedScape
- COVID-19 Data Dives: Making the Case for PPEMay 15
- Bill Hanage for MedScape
- Women in science are battling both Covid-19 and the patriarchyMay 15
- Caroline Buckee and Megan Murray for Times Higher Education
- Lockdowns are ending. We need to stay ready for the virus to surgeMay 14
- Bill Hanage for The Washington Post
- COVID-19 Data Dives: Volunteering to Get Coronavirus?May 14
- Bill Hanage for MedScape
- COVID-19 Data Dives: The High Cost of Herd ImmunityMay 13
- Bill Hanage for MedScape
- Good Science Is Good ScienceMay 12
- Marc Lipsitch for Boston Review
- Which Covid-19 Data Can You Trust?May 8
- Caroline Buckee for Harvard Business Review
- COVID-19 Data Dives: Serosurveys — If They’re Not Good Ones, They’re a Waste of TimeMay 5
- Bill Hanage for MedScape
- ‘Serology’ is the new coronavirus buzzword. Here’s why it mattersMay 4
- Marc Lipsitch for The Washington Post
- COVID-19: The CIDRAP ViewpointApril 30
- Marc Lipsitch for the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
- Considering Public Purpose in the Time of COVID-19April 29
- Michael Mina for The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
- No matter how you crunch the numbers, this pandemic is only just getting startedApril 16
- Bill Hanage for The Guardian
- The Fierce Urgency Of Now: Closing Glaring Gaps In US Surveillance Data On COVID-19April 14
- Bill Hanage for Health Affairs
- Virus models predict possible outcomes. We can fight to stop the worst onesApril 14
- Bill Hanage for The Washington Post
- Keep parks open. The benefits of fresh air outweigh the risks of infectionApril 13
- Joe Allen, Ned Friedman, and Marc Lipsitch for The Washington Post
- Who Is Immune to the Coronavirus?April 13
- Marc Lipsitch for The New York Times
- Coronavirus ‘is the Big One … I hope never to see bigger’: Harvard epidemiologistApril 8
- Marc Lipsitch for USA Today
- What we need to know before we can end social distancingApril 1
- Caroline Buckee and Yonatan Grad for The Washington Post
- 4/1/20: Navigating the Covid-19 pandemic: We’re just clambering into a life raft. Dry land is far awayApril 1
- Marc Lipsitch and Yonatan Grad for STAT News
- Social distancing won’t last forever. But ending it by Easter will kill peopleMarch 26
- Bill Hanage for The Washington Post
- Bangladesh must enact widespread surveillance and social distancing measuresMarch 26
- Caroline Buckee for The Daily Star
- 6 things to know if you’re living with someone who has coronavirus, or think you might beMarch 24
- Marc Lipsitch for USA Today
- Far more people in the U.S. have the coronavirus than you thinkMarch 23
- Marc Lipsitch for The Washington Post
- Prepare Now for the Long War Against Covid-19March 20
- Marc Lipsitch for Bloomberg
- We know enough now to act decisively against Covid-19. Social distancing is a good place to startMarch 18
- Marc Lipsitch for STAT News
- Coronavirus reality check: 7 myths about social distancing, bustedMarch 16
- Marc Lipsitch for USA Today
- I’m an epidemiologist. When I heard about Britain’s ‘herd immunity’ coronavirus plan, I thought it was satireMarch 15
- Bill Hanage for The Guardian
- Puerto Rico must act now to stop the coronavirusMarch 13
- Caroline Buckee for The Boston Globe
- The interventions we must take to control the coronavirusMarch 11
- Marc Lipsitch for The Boston Globe
- If you can work from home, you should. NowMarch 10
- Bill Hanage for The Washington Post
- Former FDA chief & Harvard professor: Take smart steps to slow spread of the coronavirusMarch 9
- Marc Lipsitch for USA Today
- Why it’s so hard to pin down the risk of dying from coronavirusMarch 6
- Marc Lipsitch for The Washington Post
- Testing for the coronavirus might have stopped it. Now it’s too lateMarch 6
- Bill Hanage for The Washington Post
- How to Report on the COVID-19 Outbreak ResponsiblyFebruary 23
- Bill Hanage and Marc Lipsitch for Scientific American