We Know the âHarvardâ Study on UP is Not from Harvard. Itâs Also Not Much of a âStudyâ. The report, which a senior UP bureaucrat helped 'from conceptualisation to completion', lists out official claims about how the Adityanath government acted, without assessing what the impact of its policies actually were on the ground. The report makes no mention of this infamous incident from March 30, 2020, when healthcare workers, in protective suits, used a hosepipe to spray disinfectant on migrant workers before allowing them to enter the town of Bareilly. Photo: PTI Media17 hours ago Last week, as reported cases of COVID-19 witnessed an unprecedented spike in Uttar Pradesh and the rest of India, several news outlets ran breathless stories about how a study by Harvard University had lauded the Yogi Adityanath governmentâs handling of the migrant crisis last year.