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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel commented on CDC guidelines that promote surgical masks over N95s, despite the latter’s superior protection. “It’s baffling,” he said. “This is something where the CDC has been on the wrong side for a long time.”
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Susan Wachter of the Wharton School spoke about how the shift to remote work may affect where employees choose to live. “Towns near amenities are the new hot spots now and for some time to come,” she said.
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The School of Nursing’s Melanie Kornides says that it is hard to determine how much impact a professional basketball player’s anti-vaccine stance will have on vaccination rates.
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PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel said Francis Collins’ departure from the NIH was an opportunity to restructure the agency. Apart from its organizational inefficiencies, the NIH awards too few grants to young and/or Black researchers, said Emanuel. “That's not a good thing for innovation.”
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The Perelman School of Medicine’s Paul Offit notes that the administration’s booster plan wasn’t the FDA’s booster plan.
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L. Scott Levin of the Perelman School of Medicine said post-surgical telehealth visits may become commonplace. However, he said, this could be a challenge when treating patients with complex cases and those from underserved communities.
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Utsha Khatri of the Perelman School of Medicine co-wrote an op-ed about rules adopted during the pandemic that allowed clinicians to prescribe drugs to treat opioid use disorder over the phone, without video. Khatri and her co-author propose extending these policies permanently.
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Paul Offit of the Perelman School of Medicine said the next annual flu outbreak could, but likely won’t, be tempered with lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. “Could we reasonably in a winter month wear masks just at least when we’re outside in large crowds? Did we learn that or are we comfortable having hundreds of 1000s of cases of hospitalizations for flu and 10s of 1000s deaths?” he asked. “I suspect the answer is B.”
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center was interviewed about fact-checking in journalism, which has increased in response to rampant misinformation online. “It is not advisable to negate something; it’s advisable to displace something,” she said. “A detailed alternative account of the reality has a power that simply saying ‘that’s wrong’ or ‘no, that’s not true’ doesn’t.”
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Dan Hopkins of the School of Arts & Sciences said disaster preparedness is cost-effective policy that doesn’t register with the electorate the way failure does. “As voters, we pay attention in the wake of disasters, and we reward or punish incumbents based on their actions,” he said. “But when the cameras are elsewhere, we’re not nearly as good about rewarding the incumbents who are getting ready for the next disaster.”