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Theater stopped misinformation during the Ebola crisis. The arts might help beat this pandemic
Jasmine Blanks Jones working with a student at B4 Theater.

Before the need to socially isolate, Jasmine Blanks Jones worked with student artists at B4 Youth Theatre. (Image: Penn GSE)

Theater stopped misinformation during the Ebola crisis. The arts might help beat this pandemic

When she started B4 Youth Theatre in 2010, Jasmine Blanks Jones wanted to create a theater camp where Liberian youth could amplify their voices as members of their community and use theater to create change. 

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Penn Libraries expands digital collections, online platforms, and expert support
Fifteen people on videoconference on computer screen

The Libraries is investing in resources to support the Penn community while working remotely, such as buying e-books, gaining access to other digital collections, as well as bolstering the number of librarians available to answer questions. The leadership team meets regularly by videoconference.  

Penn Libraries expands digital collections, online platforms, and expert support

To support the Penn community while working remotely, the Penn Libraries purchased 35,000 e-books, negotiated access to other digital collections, increased video streaming access, and tripled the number of librarians available to answer questions.
Diagnosing Russia’s COVID-19 response
Person in black hooded jacket and pants facing away from camera walks near Red Square in Moscow.

Crowds are gone from Moscow’s Red Square as the coronavirus pandemic spreads in Russia.

Diagnosing Russia’s COVID-19 response

Despite the Russian government’s assertions that it has the COVID-19 crisis under control, the outbreak is in the beginning stages in the country and three experts says Vladimir Putin’s political fate may rest on how he responds to the crisis.

Kristen de Groot

Cassandra Adams helps students navigate the health system in a crisis
Cassandra Adams wearing a medical mask and scarf on her head stands in front of a white board

Cassandra Adams, medical receptionist, Student Health Service. (Image: Penn Human Resources)

Cassandra Adams helps students navigate the health system in a crisis

As part of the Essential Staff Profiles series, Cassandra Adams’ work as a medical receptionist with Student Health Services is a critical service that helps keep students safe navigating their medical needs.

From Penn Human Resources

How health insurers can be heroes. Really

How health insurers can be heroes. Really

Amol Navathe of the Perelman School of Medicine and PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel called for health insurers to support customers by cutting premiums and co-payments, help hospitals and doctors by switching to a fixed-fee model, and work with public health officials to expand COVID-19 testing and establish contact tracing.

Coming together to solve the many scientific mysteries of COVID-19
Colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (green) heavily infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (purple), isolated from a patient sample.

Colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (green) heavily infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (purple), isolated from a patient sample. Image captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. (Image: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH)

Coming together to solve the many scientific mysteries of COVID-19

Putting some of their regular research projects on the back burner, researchers around Penn are digging into unknowns about the novel coronavirus from their deep and varied perspectives.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Here’s a fair approach to calculating COVID-19 specific aid to the states

Here’s a fair approach to calculating COVID-19 specific aid to the states

Robert Inman of the Wharton School and David Skeel of the Law School wrote an op-ed proposing a fair method to calculate federal aid for states. “Because some states will be hit harder than others, Congress should allocate the $358 billion based on each state’s rate of COVID-19 cases and related unemployment claims,” they wrote.

Inside the pandemic’s most deadly targets: Nursing homes
Empty hallway in a nursing home with an electric wheelchair and a walker by a sunlit door

Inside the pandemic’s most deadly targets: Nursing homes

The fourth in an ongoing series of LDI “Experts at Home” virtual seminars focused on how the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the cracks in how we fund and staff nursing home care.

Hoag Levins

The sociology of disease and disgust
A woman wearing a red cross and a mask over her face illustrates an announcement that says, "To Prevent Influenza!"

A public health announcement taken from a 1918 issue of Illustrated Current News is part of the Mütter Museum’s “Spit Spreads Death” exhibition. (Image: U.S. National Library of Medicine.)

The sociology of disease and disgust

Ramah McKay and David Barnes discuss the historical association of disease, shame, and social stigma.

Kristina García