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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Thomas Sollecito of the School of Dental Medicine spoke about the increase in patients experiencing pain from grinding or clenching their teeth. He recommended meditation and physical exercise to reduce stress but encouraged patients with persistent pain and tension to call their dentists.
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Alison Buttenheim of the School of Nursing spoke about COVID-19 fatigue, in which acclimation to pandemic-related restrictions has led some to feel less threatened by the virus. “Even if we acknowledge that generally everyone should cancel travel plans and not host large gatherings, we cut ourselves slack and license our own behavior because we’ve convinced ourselves that it’s less risky or we have a special exception,” she said.
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Pinar Yildrim of the Wharton School spoke about social media as a political tool. “You don’t have to have the big money, big bucks, big fundraisers, big supporters to be able to communicate on Twitter with your constituency,” she said.
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M. Kit Delgado of the Perelman School of Medicine said visiting family during the holidays this year is a medium- to high-risk activity. “Unfortunately, the merriment we crave—eating, drinking and singing together in a cozy room—are among the highest-risk scenarios for transmitting COVID-19,” he said. “I’m optimistic that things will be different next year, and we can give up this year as an act of charity to our friends, family and community.”
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PIK Professor Herbert Hovenkamp has pointed out that Amazon competes in a number of defined markets.
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Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School said the stock market may have hit its bottom last week. Indicators of recovery include fiscal stimulus, flattening the curve, vaccine developments, and deadlines for economic normalcy.
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Neil Fishman of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about the spread of the novel coronavirus, saying, “If we would have had a true understanding of the extent of the disease several weeks ago, implementation of social-distancing measures could have prevented the escalation of the disease.”
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A new working paper co-authored by Joseph Gyourko and Jacob Krimmel of the Wharton School examined changes in zoning laws to create an index of where land-use regulations are toughest, with San Francisco and New York City coming in first and second in the ranking, respectively.
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Olivia Mitchell of the Wharton School spoke about the downsides of money-back guarantees for retirement accounts.
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Ioana Marinescu of the School of Social Policy & Practice said that, in an ideal world, universal basic income would better improve the lives of Americans than a $15 hourly wage. The former is “a more ambitious plan, for sure, and therefore the rub is the cost,” she said.