5/18
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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States are letting stay-at-home orders expire, regardless of virus metrics
Alison Buttenheim of the School of Nursing said once stay-at-home orders are eased, the rate of coronavirus infections will likely increase again. “Masks will help, but masks are not a substitute for keeping away from each other,” she said.
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State texting bans are saving teen drivers’ lives
Catherine McDonald of the School of Nursing spoke about how to teach teens to not use cell phones while driving. “Education, policy, and enforcement are [all] key. Parents need to model safe driving behavior, including no cellphone use while driving, well before their teen reaches driving age,” she said.
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COVID-19 is worsening disparities in pediatric type 1 diabetes. Community Health Workers can help
The Leonard Davis Institute’s Charlene Lai of CHOP and Terri Lipman of the School of Nursing wrote about how community health workers can support the families of children with Type 1 diabetes. These health workers “are helping families to connect with their health care teams through technology, applying for economic relief, finding local food pantries, strategizing childcare, and providing a virtual shoulder to lean on during these difficult times,” they said.
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GLOBAL HANGOUT: Ask the Experts
Alison Buttenheim of the School of Nursing joined a panel of experts to discuss the coronavirus pandemic and what’s to come. “Epidemiologists are thinking about multiple scenarios, trying to learn from past outbreaks and from what we’ve seen so far with COVID-19. It is very likely that we will have future waves of outbreaks in local areas and in countries.”
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Amid coronavirus, America’s nursing homes have become a national tragedy
Mary Ersek of the School of Nursing and the Perelman School of Medicine writes on COVID-19's effect on nursing homes.
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“There will be a vaccine … but not anytime soon”
Jennifer Pinto-Martin of the School of Nursing said the U.S. should expect at least one additional wave of the coronavirus and that a vaccine won’t be available “anytime soon.”
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Nurses’ group makes new call for PPE donations, funds
Marion Leary of the School of Nursing spoke about the demand for personal protection equipment for health care workers. “We have not seen a decline in the requests, or in the urgency or requests. I personally am getting messages on social media asking for supplies of PPE, especially N95 masks,” Leary said.
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Elite athletes deal with delay of Olympics, look toward 2021
Nia Akins, a senior in the School of Nursing and a student athlete, spoke about the postponed 2020 Olympics. “I think if you're only running, you know, you tend to overthink running a lot more, and it kind of like consumes your life,” she said. “And I think especially now, with this huge pause, I am very fortunate that I have nursing school to kind of take away from that, if that makes sense. It is something that I can focus on.”
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More testing needed before states implement Trump's reopening guidance, experts say
Jennifer Pinto-Martin of the School of Nursing said states need to be able to test more of the population in order to lift stay-at-home orders. "The only way to successfully contain is with really systematic and aggressive testing and isolation and contact tracing. And the states don't have the capacity to do that on their own," she said.
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Penn Nursing providing free telehealth training during pandemic
School of Nursing Dean Antonia Villarruel and PIK Professor George Demiris commented on Penn’s free online trainings for health care providers. “During the COVID-19 crisis, significant barriers to the wide adoption of telehealth have been lifted,” said Demiris. “Many providers are now eager to do telehealth. This is a modality that we’ll be using for a long time.”