The New York Times

We Lead Three Universities. It’s Time for Drastic Action.

March 18, 2020

Harvard University President Lawrence S. Bacow, MIT President L. Rafael Reif,  and Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne write:  The arrival of the new coronavirus is teaching us all what a pandemic demands of us. As leaders of three institutions fortunate to have access to outstanding public health research, we quickly came to understand in recent weeks that if we wanted to help protect the health of our nation, we had to take drastic action. Initially, these actions felt awful, and uncomfortably extreme — even to those of us in charge. And the practical consequences have been difficult for everyone. So, is all this disruption really necessary? We believe the answer is yes.

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