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Coronavirus myth: Mouthwash can reduce the spread

Coronavirus myth: Mouthwash can reduce the spread

Dean Mark S. Wolff of the School of Dental Medicine debunked the idea that mouthwash can prevent the transmission of the coronavirus. “The virus doesn’t just sit inside the mouth, so [that] if we swish it will be dead,” he said. “A chemical in the mouth is not getting into the nasal cavity or the lungs.”

What would sports look like with smaller or no crowds?

What would sports look like with smaller or no crowds?

Winka Dubbeldam and Brian Phillips of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design spoke about what sport spectatorship might look like with social distancing measures in place. “I’m expecting that we’ll see some innovation in ways that people can be in a space that isn’t as dense, like small social pods,’’ Phillips said.

At home, but still engaged with STEM classes
close up of tito device

At home, but still engaged with STEM classes

While instructional laboratories on campus are closed, students, faculty, and instructors are finding creative solutions for science, math, and engineering courses and projects.

Erica K. Brockmeier

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

One idea for speeding a coronavirus vaccine: Deliberately infecting people

One idea for speeding a coronavirus vaccine: Deliberately infecting people

Stanley Plotkin of the Perelman School of Medicine weighed in on proposals to use a human challenge trial to fast-track a coronavirus vaccine. “If problems don’t arise along the way, I think it would be reasonable to hope that one could do a human challenge trial in about four months,” he said.

Lockdown protesters have a moral duty to forgo medical care in favor of those who followed the rules

Lockdown protesters have a moral duty to forgo medical care in favor of those who followed the rules

Dominic Sisti and Emily Largent of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues from Colorado State University and New York University wrote an op-ed arguing that anti-lockdown protestors who contract COVID-19 should sign a pledge to forgo rationed medical care, leaving ventilators for those who agreed to practice social distancing.

In the coronavirus crisis, Newsom uses social media to raise awareness of the pandemic — and his profile

In the coronavirus crisis, Newsom uses social media to raise awareness of the pandemic — and his profile

Raina Merchant of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about the use of social media by elected officials and public health leaders to communicate about the coronavirus. “There’s just a lot more people who are on social media. So these types of conversations are very important,” she said.