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Is it safe to go to a nail salon now? What experts want you to know
Carolyn Cannuscio of the Perelman School of Medicine said pursuing nail services might still be too high risk for many. "A manicure is a luxury personal care service, and it requires close, sustained physical contact. Most importantly, it is optional, and it can and should be avoided while there is ample community transmission of the virus that causes COVID-19," she said.
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How to grow green
Daniel Aldana Cohen of the School of Arts & Sciences has proposed that grants be made to help replace aging utility systems in low-income and public housing.
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Social movements in our history produced significant change. The George Floyd protests can, too
Michael Hanchard of the School of Arts & Sciences was interviewed about the fight for social change and about political organizing.
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Fixing the health care system: lessons from the pandemic
PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel spoke about his work at Penn and in politics as well as the path to universal health care.
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Obama is right. The Floyd protests will change public policy
Daniel Q. Gillion of the School of Arts & Sciences wrote about the effect of protests on public policy. “My research finds politicians use racial protests to learn about U.S. race relations, helping them adapt to the latest iteration of minority appeals, and giving them an opening for political innovation,” he said.
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Trump’s deranged antifa tweet and OANN are the result of failed media policy
Victor Pickard of the Annenberg School for Communication said the rise of news networks like OANN stems from failed U.S. media policies. “We are typically at the mercy of unregulated, profit-driven media firms with only weak public alternatives,” he said. “Most of the public interest protections we once had—such as the fairness doctrine—are long gone.”
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Could Trump turn a vaccine into a campaign stunt?
PIK Professor Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Paul Offit of the Perelman School of Medicine wrote an op-ed about the dangers of rushing the development of a coronavirus vaccine. “Giving people a false sense of being protected will most likely lead to serious outbreaks of the disease as people reduce their compliance with physical distancing and other public health measures,” they wrote.
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McEnany’s mission: Stand by, defend, punch back for Trump
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center said it’s become increasingly difficult “to reliably distinguish the transcript of a statement by the White House press secretary from that of the spokesperson for that president’s reelection campaign.”
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Can a vaccine for COVID-19 be developed in record time?
Susan R. Weiss of the Perelman School of Medicine joined a panel discussion about vaccine development.
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‘History is being made.’ Colleges scramble to create archives that will record life during the pandemic
Penn is archiving the community’s experiences of the coronavirus pandemic. “What we generally get in our archives is the raw data of an institution’s history, the decisions that are made, when certain things happened,” said acting university archivist J. M. Duffin. “We rarely get anything that’s part of the human side. In order to understand the human side, we need to try to get people’s direct testimony of their experiences.”