哈佛大学校长夫妇确认感染新冠病毒

科学百姓 2020.3.24

哈佛大学巴考校长刚刚给师生员工写信，通报他和妻子双双被新冠病毒感染的情况。

他们是3月22日星期天出现症状，今天得到检测结果。

巴校长说他们夫妇俩都不知道是从哪个途径怎么感染上的。

巴校长在信里告诉大家，从3月14日开始，他就在家工作，接触的人比往日少很多。现在哈佛大学公共卫生学院在逐个筛查过去14天内巴校长近距离接触过人。

巴校长今年68岁，是5次马拉松长跑赛参加者。

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哈佛大学校长信件全文原件：

Dear Members of the Harvard Community,



Earlier today, Adele and I learned that we tested positive for COVID-19. We started experiencing symptoms on Sunday—first coughs then fevers, chills, and muscle aches—and contacted our doctors on Monday. We were tested yesterday and just received the results a few minutes ago. We wanted to share this news with all of you as soon as possible.



Neither of us knows how we contracted the virus, but the good news—if there is any to be had—is that far fewer people crossed our paths recently than is usually the case. We began working from home and completely limiting our contact with others on March 14 in keeping with recommendations to adopt social distancing measures. In line with standard protocols, the Department of Public Health will be in touch with anyone with whom we have had close contact over the past fourteen days.



We will be taking the time we need to rest and recuperate during a two-week isolation at home. I am blessed with a great team, and many of my colleagues will be taking on more responsibility over the next few weeks as Adele and I focus on just getting healthy. Thanks, in advance, for your good wishes. Thanks also for your understanding if I am not as responsive to email as I normally am.



This virus can lay anyone low. We all need to be vigilant and keep following guidelines to limit our contact with others. Your swift actions over the past few weeks—to respond to the needs of our community, to fulfill our teaching mission, and to pursue research that will save lives—have moved me deeply and made me extraordinarily grateful and proud. I hope to see as few of you in our situation as possible, and I urge you to continue following the guidance of public health experts and the advice and orders of our government officials.



The world needs your courage, creativity, and intelligence to beat this virus—wishing each of you good health.



All the best,

Larry



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Lawrence S. Bacow

President

Harvard University