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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Scott Moore of Penn Global says that the U.S. should stop emphasizing bilateral cooperation and switch to multilateral approaches when it comes to China and the climate issue.
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Katy Milkman of the Wharton School says that the autumn clock change can be reframed as a “windfall” which helps people kick-start a new habit.
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Steve Joffe of the Perelman School of Medicine says that the rarity of cord blood use doesn’t lend itself to a successful business model for private cord blood banks.
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Med student Rishi Goel of the Perelman School for Medicine says that the new bivalent vaccines will have some benefit for almost everyone who receives them.
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PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel co-writes that fighting COVID-19 demands new knowledge, but the country’s most important health-research agency has become sclerotic and overly cautious.
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Jessica Fishman of the Perelman School of Medicine and Annenberg School for Communication is featured in this article about the role messaging has played in exacerbating the booster campaign.
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John Wherry of the Perelman School of Medicine said the COVID-19 vaccines should continue to help combat new variants. “Statistically speaking, I don’t think it’s possible to escape T-cell immunity,” he said.
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Courtney Boen of the School of Arts & Sciences said the Global North’s insistence on moving on from the pandemic “shifts the burden to the very groups experiencing mass deaths to protect themselves” and absolves world leaders of responsibility. “It’s a lot easier to say that we have to learn to live with COVID if you’re not personally experiencing the ongoing loss of your family members,” she said.
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Adriana Petryna of the School of Arts & Sciences wrote about how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could impact Chernobyl, the site of a 1986 explosion at a nuclear facility. “By seizing the plant as part of a brutal invasion, Russia is stirring up radioactive particles and also Chernobyl’s painful legacy: Ukrainians’ memory of the Soviet Union’s disregard for their lives,” she wrote.
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E. John Wherry of the Perelman School of Medicine said a person’s immunity to COVID-19 depends on “the number of exposures [to the spike protein], and time since last exposure.”