
Cartoon – New Year’s Eve Optimism

Although COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are rising, there is also some positive news on the horizon, according to Joseph Allen of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
In a July 14, 2020 Washington Post op-ed, Allen, assistant professor of exposure assessment science and director of the Healthy Buildings program, wrote that progress is being made in treatments, testing, and vaccines, and that there’s growing agreement about ways to curb the spread of infection.
Among positive developments, Allen cited:
“For the first time in history, nearly every scientist in the world is focused on the same problem,” Allen wrote. “This is starting to pay real dividends.”
Read Joseph Allen’s Washington Post op-ed: Need some good news about covid-19? Here are six reasons for optimism.