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‘Microclots’ baffle doctors working with COVID-19 patients in the US

Lewis Kaplan of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about the appearance of blood clots in COVID-19 patients.

Young child sits on front steps with a book in their lap taking a sandwich out of a lunchbox.

Childhood hunger research offers a warning as pandemic threatens food security

As the COVID-19 pandemic has limited access to many free school meal programs, research from Penn GSE’s Sharon Wolf and two colleagues suggests that hunger poses developmental risks for young children.

Scientist in protective hazmat suit working in laboratory.

Alex Chen’s lessons from Ebola

Alex Chen, a doctoral candidate in anthropology, studies emerging disease preparedness, and how air and airflow is the most powerful tool against disease.

Cartoon of a person wearing a face back wondering if they should panic while reading a tabloid newspaper with the headline reading pandemic alert covid-19.

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.”

A parent and young child sit upright next to each other on a bed with laptops in their laps

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.

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