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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School says that the most recent rate hikes should eventually restore the economy to a healthy rate of inflation.
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Lisa Fairfax of the Law School spoke about her friend and college roommate Ketanji Brown Jackson, who has been nominated to serve on the Supreme Court. "I'm now a law professor and Ketanji was actually instrumental in helping me make that transition," Fairfax said. "She really made me feel like I could do it, supported me through the process."
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PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel and other public health officials issued recommendations for how the U.S. should manage the pandemic going forward. "We needed to have a new strategic plan for the country," Emanuel said. "Having an outside group, which is bipartisan, has a certain advantage."
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David Fajgenbaum of the Perelman School of Medicine said ivermectin has not proven to be effective in treating or preventing COVID-19, despite proponents’ claims. “In a disease like COVID-19, where the large majority of people—whether they receive a treatment or not—will improve, just giving someone a drug and then improving doesn't mean that the drug made them improve,” he said.
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A team led by Drew Weissman of the Perelman School of Medicine is working to develop a universal coronavirus vaccine. "There have been three epidemics with coronavirus in the past 20 years. The problem with chasing variants is by the time you've made a vaccine the variant is gone and a new variant appears," he said.
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Morris Cohen of the Wharton School spoke about the semiconductor shortage. "Most consumers didn't know and didn't care where their chips came from: 'You turn the car on, it should go, I don't really care who made the chip and what country it was built in,'" he said. "But now, all of a sudden, these issues become really important, and so I think we become more sensitized to how dependent we are, how interdependent we are, how things can be disrupted."
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Richard Doty of the Perelman School of Medicine said it’s still not clear if the SARS-CoV-2 virus enters the olfactory bulbs, causing people with COVID-19 to lose their sense of smell. “The herpes virus can get into the brain through the olfactory pathway, so it's not beyond a possibility. But the jury's still out on whether the olfactory bulbs play a role,” he said.
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John Hollway of the Law School’s Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice spoke about the need for criminal justice reform. “One in every 25 people that’s currently on death row is likely innocent,” he said.
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Misha Rosenbach of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about climate change’s effects on the skin, saying wildfire smoke can worsen eczema and increased sun exposure can heighten risk for skin cancer. “I think you would be very hard pressed to find someplace in the country that is completely unaffected,” he said.
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Edward Stadtmauer of the Perelman School of Medicine advised cancer patients to get vaccinated against COVID-19. “If you have abnormal plasma cells to begin with or are getting therapy that might suppress or damage plasma cells, you can see why that this group of patients may have the most difficulty responding to a COVID infection and responding to vaccines,” he said. “If there is any group of patients who should be vaccinated and get a booster, it is this group of patients.”