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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Drew Weissman of the Perelman School of Medicine commented on an announcement by Moderna Inc. that they have made progress on their mRNA-based coronavirus vaccine. “There are still many stages that need to be achieved,” cautioned Weissman, who developed and licensed the technique used in the research.
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Claire Finkelstein of the Law School spoke about the upcoming Supreme Court arguments on executive power. “It would literally put the president above the law if the Supreme Court sides with the president's lawyers in this case,” she said.
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Marion Leary of the School of Nursing spoke about the demand for personal protection equipment for health care workers. “We have not seen a decline in the requests, or in the urgency or requests. I personally am getting messages on social media asking for supplies of PPE, especially N95 masks,” Leary said.
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Jennifer Pinto-Martin of the School of Nursing said states need to be able to test more of the population in order to lift stay-at-home orders. "The only way to successfully contain is with really systematic and aggressive testing and isolation and contact tracing. And the states don't have the capacity to do that on their own," she said.
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Marion Leary of the School of Nursing spoke about efforts to crowd-source safety masks and other personal protective gear. “Anyone that has a stock of these supplies that they could donate to their local hospitals and healthcare providers,” she said, would be doing a great service.
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Marion Leary of the School of Nursing spoke about efforts to collect protective gear for medical personnel. “Every little bit helps our frontline providers” she said. “Thank you to everybody who is stepping up and donating.”
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Lewis Kaplan of the Perelman School of Medicine said it makes sense that the CDC has recommended postponing elective surgeries. “It frees up beds and equipment and also frees up clinicians,” he said. “If you are not using the anesthesiologist or nurse or the [gastrointestinal] suite, or the [intensive care] suite nurse, they can be recast as you need if you have large scale influxes of patients.”
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Peter Cappelli of the Wharton School discussed how workplaces are preparing for the spread of the novel coronavirus. “We’re trying to figure out how to keep the business going when people can’t get to the office,” he said. “My sense is the first thing that will happen, and the most likely thing is that it's not that all your employees will be too sick to work, it's that they won't be in the office.”
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Krista Schwarz of the Wharton School said the last time the Federal Reserve lowered interest rates was in July. Since then, “the 30-year fixed rate has come down about .2%,” she said.
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Susan Domcheck of the Basser Center for BRCA at the Abramson Cancer Center said that while new recommendations for the screening for BRCA1 and 2 gene mutations are “very valuable,” they don’t address many persistent problems. She stressed the need for additional research regarding BRCA mutations and risk factors, including the effect of race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status.