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Use of conservative and social media linked with COVID-19 misinformation

A study of media use and public knowledge has found people who relied on conservative or social media were more likely to be misinformed about how to prevent COVID-19 and believe conspiracy theories about it.

There are more cases than we thought. Is that good news?

PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel said recent reports that more people may have already had the coronavirus “doesn’t make any of the goals you want to reach easier.”

In coronavirus pandemic, for health care workers, despair is only human

PIK Professor Jonathan Moreno and Stephen N. Xenakis of the Law School wrote about health care workers facing burnout and moral injury while working through the pandemic. “The health care workers fighting the ‘war on the virus’ deserve unqualified and public acknowledgment for their selfless service,” they wrote. “It is especially tough for them, and they should not be forgotten.”

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How do you homeschool kids? The pandemic has lots of parents asking

Penn GSE’s Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher’s new podcast offers guidance on juggling work and homeschooling, and how to focus on what kids and parents truly need during the pandemic.

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President Gutmann teaches session in first-of-its-kind Wharton coronavirus online course

President Amy Gutmann participated in a Q&A session with Wharton Dean Geoff Garrett and approximately 2,000 students as part of the new course dedicated to the coronavirus crisis called Epidemics, National Disasters, and Geopolitics: Managing Global Business and Financial Uncertainty.

You don’t have to be great right now. ‘Good enough’ will do

In an op-ed, Lisa Servon of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design wrote about letting go of perfectionism during the coronavirus pandemic and just striving to be “good enough” instead.

Business and science are pointing in the same direction

Kevin Volpp and David Asch of the Wharton School and Ralph Muller, former CEO of the Health System, wrote about the path to safely reopening the economy. They propose performing or observing multiple social experiments to see what does and doesn’t work and implementing “good scientific practice” to establish early warning systems.

Inequities in COVID-19 are tragic but preventable

Courtney Boen of the School of Arts and Sciences contributed to an op-ed about using policy to minimize health inequities during the coronavirus pandemic. “Failing to act is counter to extensive research that demonstrates how policies can narrow health inequities,” Boen and her co-authors wrote.

‘Disease knows no borders’

From the history of science to medical anthropology, governance, and economics, Penn experts look at the history of global health from different perspectives to see what the future may hold.

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New Summer Savings Grant provides aid to replace lost summer earnings

Penn will provide undergraduate financial aid recipients with grants in 2020-21 to replace standard summer savings expectations, mitigating lost job opportunities due to COVID-19.

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