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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Carolyn Cannuscio of the Perelman School of Medicine commented on the U.S. ability to test for COVID-19. “We have a broken testing system, and that sets us up for failure in contact tracing because people are waiting so long to get their test results that we have missed a critical period for counseling those people to stay home and avoid infecting others,” she said.
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Dean of Admissions Eric Furda and Jacques Steinberg, co-authors of “The College Conversation,” shared an excerpt from their guide to navigating college admissions and freshman year amid the pandemic.
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Research led by Linda Aiken of the School of Nursing found that limiting nurses to caring for four or fewer patients at a time can lead to lower rates of readmission or death.
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Students at Penn have set up a Minecraft server to build a digital version of the campus. College of Arts and Sciences junior Andrew Guo came up with the idea.
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Jessa Lingel of the Annenberg School for Communication weighed in on criticisms of influencers announcing their pregnancies with sponsored Instagram posts. “We still have a puritan way of thinking that pregnancy announcements are sacred,” she said. “Everything can be commercialized, but not this.”
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“The salaries are not high enough to justify the number of hours worked and the health, family, and social consequences of this work,” the School of Arts and Sciences’ Steve Viscelli said of the hazards professional truck drivers face.
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Claire Finkelstein of the Law School comments on reports of Donald Trump Jr. allegedly having knowledge about Russia interfering in the 2016 presidential election.
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Claire Finkelstein of the Law School calls the U.S.’ handling of Russia’s election interference “bizarre.”
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Stewart Friedman of the Wharton School comments on unlimited-vacation policies and the perception of employees who take time off from work.
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David Skeel Jr. of the Law School is quoted about granting federal bankruptcy protection to states in financial crisis.