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Nurses go beyond the caregiving
The entrance to a hospital. People in personal protective equipment swab others as they enter the building.

Nurses at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, seen here in personal protective equipment, use thermal scanners to check the temperature of every person who enters the facility. (Image: Daniel Burke)

Nurses go beyond the caregiving

In the face of a disease that requires physical separation from other human beings, these care providers have extended their role, taking on tasks usually relegated to others and sitting in as family and friends to the ill.

Michele W. Berger

How tweets may influence substance abuse in youth
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How tweets may influence substance abuse in youth

While social media provides youth the opportunity to discuss and display substance use-related beliefs and behaviors, little is known about how posting or viewing drug-related content influences the beliefs and behaviors of youth relative to substance use.

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With support from parents, teens forge a path to handle social distancing
A teenager stands outside and puts a mask on their face while a group of friends wearing masks stands behind them on the grass.

With support from parents, teens forge a path to handle social distancing

Adolescents need and value their friends, relationships challenged by COVID-19 restrictions. By having explicit conversations and facilitating remote access to peers, the adults in their lives can help.

Michele W. Berger

Health care education in a virtual world
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Health care education in a virtual world

For future health care providers, moving education online has proved especially challenging. With ingenuity and creativity, faculty are helping them continue gaining the skills they’ll need.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Among North Philadelphia’s Latino elders during COVID-19
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Among North Philadelphia’s Latino elders during COVID-19

School of Nursing faculty member and LDI Senior Fellow Adriana Perez conducts research in two of the Philadelphia area’s largest Latino communities and provides insights into how COVID-19 is impacting each.

Hoag Levins

Researchers, schools answer the call for personal protective equipment and critical supplies
researchers in the singh nano labs

Postdoctoral researcher Sam Nicaise, center, working on newly-made nanocardboard plates. Bargatin and his team have spent years creating this and other ultralight materials, using the state-of-the-art nanofabrication and characterization equipment inside the Singh Center.

Researchers, schools answer the call for personal protective equipment and critical supplies

To help in the ongoing fight against the novel coronavirus, groups across campus are donating what they can, from masks and gloves to ventilators.

Erica K. Brockmeier

Flattening the curve of the coronavirus
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Flattening the curve of the coronavirus

In the current fast-moving, unprecedented situation, what we do today to stem the impact of COVID-19 can vastly affect what we will face tomorrow. Two epidemiologists discuss what we can do individually and as a society to slow the spread of the disease.

Michele W. Berger