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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
When asked if people would give up on trying to understand COVID-19 isolation guidelines and just improvise their own rules, Alison Buttenheim of the School of Nursing said, “I think people already have.”
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Susan Taylor of the Perelman School of Medicine said Black patients experiencing hair loss are more likely to have central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia, a condition many practitioners are unfamiliar with. “For Black women in particular, they’re told, ‘Stop your relaxers; don’t straighten your hair,’” she said. “And then they say to me, ‘But Dr. Taylor, I always wear my hair natural. I don’t relax my hair.’”
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Vincent Reina of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design will be assessing the results of a rental assistance pilot program in Philadelphia that will distribute cash aid rather than vouchers. “There’s been some explorations, but a true, proper evaluation is something that we’ve never really done,” he said. “Cash transfers are often more contentious.”
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Paul Offit and med student Rishi Goel of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about the science of booster shots. Generally speaking, a booster “gets you back up to some threshold we know is important” and is intended to restore lost immunity, said Goel.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center said shows like “Tucker Carlson Tonight” foster distrust in the COVID-19 vaccine by perpetuating viewers’ assumptions. “If you hear the word lie tied to Anthony Fauci, and Anthony Fauci now comes on in a completely different venue, the assumption is, you can’t trust Anthony Fauci,” she said.
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Laura Su of the Perelman School of Medicine explained why breakthrough COVID-19 infections occur in vaccinated people. “People tend to think of this as yes or no—if I got vaccinated, I should not get any symptoms; I should be completely protected,” she said. “But there’s way more nuance than that.”
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Cristina Bicchieri of the School of Arts & Sciences said the idea of a standing ovation stems from an ancient Roman “sign of respect” for generals returning battle.
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Kate Dorsch of the School of Arts & Sciences said the UFO is a postwar phenomenon. “Never before has humanity been able to so immediately and unquestionably destroy itself,” she said.
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Marissa Bluestine of the Law School’s Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice spoke about the numerous innocence organizations working to exonerate wrongfully convicted people on death row in the U.S.
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Meena Bewtra of the Perelman School of Medicine said, regarding still unknown facets of how the coronavirus interacts with the immune system, “We still don’t understand why only certain people get so sick and die” from COVID-19.