March 22, 2020
UNITED STATES
Leading university presidents plead for drastic action
Harvard University President Lawrence S Bacow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) President L Rafael Reif and Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne, writing in a joint article in the New York Times said: “The experience of other countries has shown the crucial value of making big moves as quickly as possible to ‘flatten the curve’ – to slow the rate of infection so that our hospitals and health care workers are not overwhelmed.