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The MGH Institute continues having difficult—but necessary— conversations about the country’s second pandemic.

The MGH Institute’s ninth Annual Community Day took place as scheduled this year. But there was a twist. All of the activities, aimed at serving local nonprofits and building community between students, took place virtually.

A new paper co-authored by Xue Bao, a PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences student, and SAiL Director Dr. Tiffany Hogan, examines the connection between months of home schooling and a possible loss of reading ability due to school closings caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Twenty faculty members will use eight seed grants distributed by the Research Operations Committee to research the effects of the coronavirus on health care. It is hoped that these grants will develop into external grant proposals for translational research with the goal of tapping into the...