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What experts say works for combating coronavirus misinformation

Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center spoke about counteracting health misinformation. “If you don't go into same venue where the misinformation originally spread, then you're not likely to reach audience the audience that heard it originally,” she says.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

Nature as a refuge in unsettling times

Even before the pandemic, campus initiatives like NatureRx@Penn and the 30x30 Challenge encouraged time outside. These efforts are continuing, now that restorative outlets are more important than ever.

More testing needed before states implement Trump's reopening guidance, experts say

Jennifer Pinto-Martin of the School of Nursing said states need to be able to test more of the population in order to lift stay-at-home orders. "The only way to successfully contain is with really systematic and aggressive testing and isolation and contact tracing. And the states don't have the capacity to do that on their own," she said.

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Q&A

Domestic violence and gun sales in the time of COVID-19

In a Q&A, School of Social Policy & Practice researcher Susan B. Sorenson describes new challenges surrounding intimate partner violence and the uptick in gun purchases since this crisis began.

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