5/18
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Social media’s ‘infodemic’
Dominic Sisti and Raina Merchant of the Perelman School of Medicine and Alison Buttenheim of the School of Nursing discussed the role of social media in public health.
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Race, protest and media coverage
Sarah Jackson of the Annenberg School for Communication joined a discussion about media coverage of the George Floyd protests and the history of Black activism.
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Protests, masks and public health: where do my rights end and yours begin?
Dominic Sisti of the Perelman School of Medicine and Alison Buttenheim of the School of Nursing spoke about encouraging healthy behavior during a pandemic and the responsibilities of those who choose not to participate in social distancing.
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Philly investigating 1,742 percent more respiratory deaths, and many at-home deaths
Jay Giri of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted on calculating an accurate death toll during the pandemic.
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‘Pushed into adulthood’: Philly podcast brings together HS seniors upended by shutdown
Wharton senior Gregory Nesmith works with local high schoolers to produce a radio show through Bridges to Wealth. While the podcast was originally about business and finance, the pandemic has shifted its focus to emergent issues directly affecting high school seniors.
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Elite athletes deal with delay of Olympics, look toward 2021
Nia Akins, a senior in the School of Nursing and a student athlete, spoke about the postponed 2020 Olympics. “I think if you're only running, you know, you tend to overthink running a lot more, and it kind of like consumes your life,” she said. “And I think especially now, with this huge pause, I am very fortunate that I have nursing school to kind of take away from that, if that makes sense. It is something that I can focus on.”
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No coronavirus relief for the undocumented workers behind Philly’s building boom
In an article about undocumented workers’ inability to access coronavirus relief, Domenic Vitiello of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design said that “a significant portion of the smaller job construction work in the region, and in the country, is done by people who are in the country illegally.”
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Cats can get coronavirus. How worried should you be?
Shelley Rankin of the School of Veterinary Medicine weighed in on a study that found that cats can contract and spread the coronavirus. “All this study showed is that they could experimentally infect cats: It doesn’t mean that the virus is causing disease in the cat population, and it does not mean that cats can infect humans,” she said. “Whether or not this can happen in the wild … is still open to interpretation.”
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This runner was a favorite for the U.S. Olympic team. Then came the coronavirus pandemic
School of Nursing senior Nia Akins and Athletics’ Meghan Cartafalsa spoke about training for the Olympics and the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
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This runner was a favorite for the U.S. Olympic team. Then came the coronavirus pandemic
The middle-distance runner from Penn, who ran the second-fastest 800 meters in NCAA history, was quickly turning her focus to the Olympics, until the coronavirus put everything on hold. Now training for her “peak” has been put off indefinitely.