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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Mass. joins several other states already deploying vaccine lotteries
David Asch of the Wharton School and Perelman School of Medicine said vaccine lotteries “appeal to the emotional side of our nature rather than the quantitative transactional side, and the former usually wins.”
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Biden, public health officials face crossroads on COVID-19
Aaron Richterman of the Perelman School of Medicine said promoting how effective COVID-19 vaccines actually are would help convince more people to get vaccinated. “Nothing is ever 100 percent, but these are as effective as any vaccine that’s ever been tested,” he said. “That’s how I would frame that.”
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Big tobacco is coming for legal marijuana
Andy Tan of the Annenberg School for Communication and Shaleen Title of Ohio State University expressed concerns about tobacco companies’ involvement in the burgeoning legal cannabis industry. “The tragic public health consequences of cigarettes were exacerbated through sustained profit-driven predatory marketing practices and deregulatory efforts,” they wrote. “Instead of repeating that history, federal policy makers should work with tobacco control and state-level marijuana experts to prevent Big Tobacco 2.0.”
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The next stage of the vaccine drive: Persuading the hesitant
Alison Buttenheim of the School of Nursing spoke about how COVID-19 vaccine discourse may evolve during the next few months. While the public conversation is currently focused on vaccine scarcity, “pretty soon, I would say in four to six weeks, it’s going to be about finding people and persuading people,” she said.
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The Boston Public Schools are in crisis. Harvard (or BC or MGH) can help
Penn Alexander was highlighted as an example of a successful partnership between higher education and local school districts.
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Social Studies: Asian Americans and affirmative action, COVID on the frontier, gender roles
Research led by Stephen Pettigrew of the School of Arts & Sciences found that longer wait times at the polls in 2012 discouraged voters from participating in elections in 2014.
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Colleges plan for on-campus classes, even as scientists warn of risk for COVID-19
Kevin Volpp of the Perelman School of Medicine commented on the decision to reopen college campuses. “It is a risk-benefit equation,” he said. “It’s impossible to make this zero risk.”
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Post-coronavirus, how will we address the trauma health care workers have suffered?
Connie Ulrich of the School of Nursing wrote an op-ed about the coronavirus’ emotional toll on health care workers. “As the pandemic slows, hospital administrators, educators, researchers, and others must begin to develop and implement interventions to address the trauma and psychological damage sustained by health care workers on the front lines,” she wrote.
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People are largely following the coronavirus rules—but will that self-control last?
Katherine Milkman of the Wharton School said people will eventually get used to social distancing, especially when peers are behaving similarly. “People are actually quite adaptable,” she said. “Doing a thing that’s unpleasant day in and day out gets easier over time and gets easier when we see that everyone else is doing it.”
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In Ohio, a Republican governor has taken aggressive steps to contain coronavirus before coming an outbreak hotspot
Julia Lynch of the School of Arts and Sciences said it’s not unusual that the U.S. policy response to the coronavirus has varied across states and localities. “What is unusual from a comparative perspective right now is that there is probably less coordinated national level leadership than one would usually see in a crisis,” she said.