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Businesses face a new coronavirus threat: Shrinking access to credit
Krista Schwarz of the Wharton School spoke about how businesses are coping with the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic. “Everyone is just trying to get by day to day at the moment,” she said. “Right now is not the time to grow the company—it’s the time to stay solvent.”
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Why is everything shut down for coronavirus, but not for the flu?
Harvey Rubin of the Perelman School of Medicine discussed how coronavirus differs from the flu and answered listener questions.
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Spiking U.S. coronavirus cases could force rationing decisions similar to those made in Italy, China
George Anesi of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about the difficult decisions doctors face in a pandemic. “In a public health emergency, you shift from a focus on individual patients to how society as a whole benefits and that’s a big change from usual care,” he said.
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Arc of Trump’s coronavirus comments defies reality on ground
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center weighed in on President Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. “The trustworthiness of a president in a time of national crisis is his most important asset,” she said. “And when he says things that are proven to be untrue, or problematic from a public health standpoint, that erodes his credibility and the capacity of the country to prepare adequately.”
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‘Experimentation Works’ and ‘The Power of Experiments’ review: Test, test and test again
A recent study of behavioral change by Katherine Milkman of the Wharton School and Angela Duckworth of the School of Arts and Sciences was cited.
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A conservative agenda unleashed on the federal courts
Stephen Burbank of the Law School spoke about trend by recent presidents to draw the federal judiciary into policy debates. “The problem as I see it is not that judges differ ideologically—of course they do—nor is it that a Republican president would look for someone with congenial ideological preferences,” he said. “It’s that in recent decades the search has been for hard-wired ideologues because they’re reliable policy agents.”
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NCAA panel backs spring athlete eligibility relief
In an email to a large group of administrators and other parties working in college athletics, NCAA Division I Council Committee chair Grace Calhoun, the athletic director at the University of Pennsylvania, wrote that the committee will “also discuss issues related to seasons of competition for winter sport student-athletes who were unable to participate in conference and NCAA championships.”
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Mapping the social network of coronavirus
PIK Professor Duncan Watts spoke about the limits of predictive modeling in confronting the spread of disease. “It may seem like a small thing at the time, but after the fact you say, ‘Oh yeah, that was hugely important,’” he said of the unexpected factors.
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Here’s exactly what medical experts mean by a ‘dry’ cough
Vivek Ahya of the Perelman School of Medicine explained various types of coughs. “A dry cough is one that does not result in production of mucus or phlegm,” he said. “This is in contrast to a productive cough which results in mucus production. Both types can be the result of infections.”
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Driverless trucks being tested right now on public roads
Steve Viscelli of the School of Arts and Sciences spoke about the impact of driverless trucks on the trucking industry. “I’ve identified two segments that I think are most at-risk. And that’s refrigerated and dry van truckload. And those constitute about 200,000 trucking jobs,” he said. “And then what’s called line haul, and they’re somewhere in the neighborhood of 80,000-90,000 jobs there.”