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May 7, 2020
“You can’t just parachute in now to tell people you are going to help them with a pandemic when they have been neglected so long. They’ll ask, ‘Where were you when my child was sick or dying of something else?’ and even with good intentions, you can’t blame them,” said Martin Pernick, professor of history, on the legacy of racism in health care that has left a dangerous divide between the medical establishment and black Americans.
BuzzFeed.News -
May 7, 2020
“COVID-19 is terrifying for those who live and work inside prisons, their families and the broader community. Governments have moved sluggishly, if at all, to release elderly and medically compromised people, or sufficient numbers of the nearly 800,000 people who are locked in crowded jails each day simply because they can’t afford to pay bail,” wrote Heather Ann Thompson, professor of history, Afroamerican and African studies, and in the Residential College.
The Washington Post -
May 6, 2020
“If you have some shock to the system — a financial crisis, a war — one effect is the weakest firms in the market tend to fail. I do worry that the world that recovers from this will be one characterized by firms having failed and pressure to consolidate,” said Daniel Crane, professor of law, on the impact the pandemic could have on rising concentration and declining competition among U.S. businesses.
Bloomberg -
May 6, 2020
“The volunteerism and openness to change have been incredible. We have been able to cut the red tape and bureaucratic delays in a manner I thought impossible before the pandemic. … It has taken less time for us to stand up three new inpatient medical teams than it usually takes to hang a picture in one of the faculty member’s offices,” said Sanjay Saint, professor of internal medicine.
Forbes -
May 6, 2020
“Every social and health-related and structural factor in their lives exacerbates their exposure to the virus. African Americans live in smaller spaces and in more densely populated communities. … When African Americans check in on their family, they’re thinking cousins, uncles, aunts, grandparents — not just siblings and parents at home,” said Alford Young, professor of sociology and Afroamerican and African studies.
Christian Science Monitor -
May 5, 2020
“Across multiple industries, the U.S. has lost its industrial commons, the collective R&D, engineering and manufacturing capabilities that sustain innovation in physical products. Outsourcing production over multiple decades has left the country without the means or ability to innovate, let alone produce, the next generation of high-technology products,” co-wrote Sridhar Kota, professor of mechanical engineering.
Forbes -
May 5, 2020
Unclassified pneumonia deaths include uncounted COVID-19 cases and could help explain the unusually high number of fatalities since late March, says Matthew Boulton, professor of epidemiology and internal medicine: “When we begin to look at it retrospectively, it’s going to help discern, or maybe develop a more accurate estimate of what the true number of deaths might have been from COVID-19.”
USA Today -
May 5, 2020
Aubree Gordon, associate professor of epidemiology, says it’s difficult to predict what immunity will look like so soon after the coronavirus pandemic started: “There hasn’t been enough time for people to get infected, for us to document their immunity and then to follow them forward in time to see if they can get infected again in the future.”
Newsweek -
May 4, 2020
More than half the world’s dwindling wild tiger population is threatened by roads built dangerously close to their habitats, and projects planned across Asia could put tigers at even greater risk, according to research by Neil Carter, assistant professor of environment and sustainability, who suggests ways new roads could be made more tiger-friendly.
New Scientist -
May 4, 2020
“We’re going to have to readjust for the sake of doing things as safely as we can based on public health advice,” said President Mark Schlissel, who remains focused on delivering the best education possible during the coronavirus pandemic and beyond. “I’m completely convinced that the educational mission is in our bones. We get up every day trying to figure out how to do it better, and we’ll do it in whatever context we can.”
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