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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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John Bolton is the model of a Trump sellout
John Gans of Perry World House wrote an op-ed about John Bolton and his former role in the Trump administration.
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Many medical decision tools disadvantage Black patients
Nwamaka Denise Eneanya, Wei Yang, and Peter Reese of the Perelman School of Medicine led a study about the consequences of using race-based formula to estimate kidney function.
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COVID-19 makes us face the hazy line between ‘elective’ and ‘essential’ medicine
Nitin Ahuja of the Perelman School of Medicine wrote an op-ed about medical procedures delayed due to the pandemic. On a spectrum of cosmetic to urgent treatments, “most of medicine sits in the middle, asking us to balance potential health benefits against potential costs,” he said.
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Florida, Arizona and Texas report record number of daily COVID-19 cases this week
Research from CHOP's PolicyLab, led by David Rubin, Gregory Tasian, and Jing Huang of the Perelman School of Medicine, has found that the coronavirus seems to be following highways as it spreads.
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Absent from stimulus packages: Overhauling energy, climate programs
Ioana Marinescu of the School of Social Policy & Practice said it’s a good time for governments to invest in climate change solutions. “Sometimes it takes a good crisis to finally move in a whole new direction just like the New Deal,” she said.
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Who’s a bot? Who’s not?
Sarah Jackson of the Annenberg School for Communication said it’s important to focus on where bots exist within social networks as well as with whom they actually interact. “Even if there are a lot of bots in a network, it is misleading to suggest they are leading the conversation or influencing real people who are tweeting in those same networks,” she said.
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Indoors, yelling and packed crowds: Experts sound alarm ahead of Trump's Tulsa rally amid coronavirus
Alison Buttenheim of the School of Nursing said an indoor political rally in the middle of a pandemic is “a terrible idea. I would be saying that if it was Joe Biden’s rally; I’d be saying it if a dog catcher candidate was holding a rally,” she said.
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Doctors view dexamethasone results on COVID-19 with excitement and skepticism
George Anesi of the Perelman School of Medicine expressed skepticism about COVID-19 research findings recently announced via press release, as opposed to in a peer-reviewed journal. "I think there's a good-hearted motivation to try to get helpful findings out as fast as possible, but that can certainly backfire," he said. "The scientific process exists for a reason."
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Penn offers free online college prep courses to incoming high school seniors
Vice Provost for Student Engagement Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum spoke about Penn’s new Rising Senior Summer Academy for Philadelphia high school students.
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Coronavirus exploited failure of Pa. health officials to improve long-standing problems with nursing home oversight
Rachel Werner of the Perelman School of Medicine said relaxing nursing home regulations during the pandemic was a matter of “balancing risks.” “The trade-off was, had they not been relaxed, other things would be worse,” she said.