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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel said lifting restrictions on indoor dining and other COVID-19 precautions is premature, in spite of the new vaccines. “The peak was just six weeks ago. We have been in this heightened state of public health alert for the last six, seven weeks,” he said. “We should not just rush out and reverse all of the advances we have had, especially with these new variants.”
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David Eisenhower of the Annenberg School for Communication spoke about a new memorial to his grandfather, President Dwight D. Eisenhower. “I think memorialization is a process that is renewed,” he said. “So, when you dedicate the memorial, I think that you are investing or gambling, in a sense, on the future, that the message that a memorial conveys will have a kind of timeless quality to it.”
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PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel participated in a debate about health care reform. “If COVID has made anything clear to all Americans, it's [that] we all need health coverage, so we can actually get the care we need,” he said.
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Mary Frances Berry of the School of Arts & Sciences said the compromises U.S. Rep. Val Demings and U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, both candidates on Joseph Biden’s shortlist of running mates, made in their careers as Black women in law enforcement make it harder for them to call themselves true reformers now. “If you’re Black, you have to do certain things in order to get ahead—in order for people in power to trust you and give you responsibility,” said Berry.
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Peter Eckel of the Graduate School of Education said the pandemic has given colleges a chance to reevaluate their summer offerings and other scheduling matters. “The pandemic has raised a lot of questions about long-held traditions about how to deliver higher education,” he said. “The academic calendar is one of them.”
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Marc Meredith of the School of Arts and Sciences said that political participation among former felons tends to be low, due to numerous factors including lack of knowledge about the process and uncertainty about eligibility.
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Ross Koppel of the School of Arts and Sciences spoke about the need for data standards in managing electronic medical records. “The classic line is that these data standards are like toothbrushes,” he said. “Everybody wants one, but they don’t want to share.”
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Frederic Bushman of Perelman School of Medicine commented on research that found that placenta encapsulation kits may be pre-contaminated by outside microbes. “It was really a very impressive bunch of detective work,” he said. “They were absolutely artistic at figuring out the sources of different kinds of contamination.”
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PIK Professor Sarah Tishkoff and Giorgio Sirugo of the Perelman School of Medicine collaborated on a paper that concluded that predominately European genetic databases may lead to difficulties treating people from other racial backgrounds. “If we don’t include ethnically diverse populations, we are potentially going to be exacerbating health inequalities,” said Tishkoff.
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Kristen Ghodsee of the School of Arts and Sciences discussed the effects of economic insecurity on women’s personal lives.