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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Melanie Kornides of the School of Nursing spoke about vaccine hesitancy. “The people that are worried about the vaccine because of side effects will be reassured as they see people get vaccinated and as more data comes out showing that the vaccine is safe,” she said. “But the people that don't believe that a certain political party has their best interests at heart are going to be difficult to convince otherwise.”
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Amy Gadsden of Penn Global weighed in on the state of China studies. “We should consider offering not only opportunities to study China but also chances to consider ‘China and X,’ where the X can be global economics, international law, bioethics, development, design, climate, and just about everything else,” she said. “The opportunity now is to explore how China is shaping and reshaping every field.”
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Susan Ellenberg and Holly Fernandez-Lynch of the Perelman School of Medicine commented on U.S. Rep. Andy Harris’s role in overseeing the trials of a coronavirus drug. “The concern about bias wouldn’t arise unless the decision-making [on data from the trial] was difficult,” said Ellenberg. “If the data are such that it's a hard call as to whether to stop the study or not, that's when the personal connections seep into consciousness.”
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Melanie Kornides of the School of Nursing comments on the effects of misinformation on vaccine development.
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Paul Offit of the Perelman School of Medicine was interviewed about Russia’s claims that it has approved a COVID-19 vaccine. “When Vladimir Putin says that it looks good, it’s safe, it’s effective, what he means is that there have been these patients presumably producing antibodies—and nobody died,” he said. “But he can’t possibly know that what they have in Russia is safe or effective, really, until they move to Phase III trials. Which doesn’t even start until next week.”
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PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel said, of public support for universal health care, “There’s been a shift toward more receptivity to bigger solutions to both of our biggest problems: coverage and affordability. But people’s thinking hasn’t caught up with the dire situation we’re in.”
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Barbara E. Kahn of the Wharton School and Megan S. Ryerson of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design offered proposals for designing a post-coronavirus world. Kahn suggested rethinking the retail experience, and Ryerson suggested replacing short flights with buses.
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Paul Offit of the Perelman School of Medicine expressed concern over calls to quickly push a coronavirus vaccine through safety testing. “People are so scared of coronavirus that even those who are young and healthy will be willing to take a relatively untested product—even though the wild-type virus is unlikely to kill them,” he said.
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PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel and Cathy Zhang and Aaron Glickman of the Perelman School of Medicine wrote about the successes of the Affordable Care Act. “This coverage triumph does not mean that the American health care system does not need reform. But it does demonstrate that the ACA can catalyze near-universal coverage. And by adopting some modest policy reforms, every state, and the country as a whole, can get there, too,” they wrote.
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Amanda Shanor of the Wharton School said that although a lifetime ban on former lawmakers lobbying, as proposed by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, may be challenged by the Supreme Court, “it’s not obviously unconstitutional.”