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How have women in the workforce fared, three years into the pandemic?
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(Homepage image) Women take on the majority of work in the care economy, both the informal, unpaid kind and paid jobs in fields like child care, education, and social services. “It might seem like the gender disparity has washed out and, in many areas, we have rebounded to pre-COVID levels,” says Gonalons-Pons. “But the care economy has not yet recovered.”

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How have women in the workforce fared, three years into the pandemic?

Despite hopeful signs that this demographic is returning to work, certain female-dominated sectors, like the care economy, still haven’t recovered, signaling there’s more to learn about COVID-19’s full effect.

Michele W. Berger

States with high COVID-19 death rates also saw high mortality from other causes
Illustration of COVID-19, made by drawing in red circular orbs with match-like objects sticking out around all of them.

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States with high COVID-19 death rates also saw high mortality from other causes

Research from Penn, Boston University, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation shows that between March 2020 and February 2021 non-COVID deaths accounted for some 20% of excess mortality.

Michele W. Berger

What statistics are most likely to promote positive actions during a pandemic?
A medical professional wearing scrubs, latex gloves and a stethoscope looks at pages of graphs and data.

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What statistics are most likely to promote positive actions during a pandemic?

A new study from PIK Professor Dolores Albarracín and research associate Haesung Annie Jung finds that some COVID statistics are more effective than others at encouraging people to change their behavior.

From Annenberg School for Communication

Flu vaccination rate holds but misinformation about flu and COVID persists
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Flu vaccination rate holds but misinformation about flu and COVID persists

The latest Annenberg Science Knowledge survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center highlights continuing uncertainty about consequential information about the flu, COVID-19, and vaccination.

From the Annenberg Public Policy Center

Why COVID misinformation continues to spread
A silhouette of a person in black on a red background. The person is holding a phone that reads "COVID-19" and the back of the head is open, with many different symbols flowing out, including a globe, a hospital, a needle, a vial, a mask, the dollar sign, and a TV screen that reads "Fake News."

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  • Q&A

    • Why COVID misinformation continues to spread

    Penn Medicine’s Anish Agarwal discusses why false claims about the virus and vaccines arise and persist, plus what he hopes will come from NIH-funded research he and Penn Engineering’s Sharath Chandra Guntuku have recently begun.

    Michele W. Berger

    Five things to know about this year’s ‘tripledemic’
    two young people wearing lie under a blanket on a couch, looking sick

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    Five things to know about this year’s ‘tripledemic’

    The Perelman School of Medicine’s E. John Wherry and Scott Hensley discuss the season’s confluence of COVID-19, influenza, and RSV and how our bodies are responding.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    How sex differences may influence lung injury
    Lung cells with RNA labeled in pink in each cell

    AT2 cells, a type of lung cell that produces surfactant and give rise to gas-exchanging cells, can be infected by SARS-CoV-2. Research by Penn Vet scientists showed that differences in gene expression between male and female AT2 cells may help explain why older males have more severe outcomes from COVID-19 and similar diseases. (Image: Courtesy of the Anguera laboratory)

    How sex differences may influence lung injury

    Comparing lung cells from male and female mice, School of Veterinary Medicine scientists found gene expression differences that may explain why older males are at a higher risk than females for worse outcomes from COVID-19 and similar diseases.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Our 15 favorite stories from 2022
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    Our 15 favorite stories from 2022

    From interdisciplinary research and life-changing discoveries to a new University president and everything in between, this year at Penn has been one for the books.

    Penn Today Staff

    A target for improving recovery from lung injury
    Microscopic image of lung with cells labeled in blue, red, and green

    A target for improving recovery from lung injury

    After a bout of severe respiratory disease, some patients never fully recover. New research from the School of Veterinary Medicine identifies a factor responsible for inappropriate tissue regrowth after infection, pointing to a possible therapeutic target.

    Katherine Unger Baillie