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January 30, 2020
“Promoting curiosity in children, especially those from environments of economic disadvantage, may be an important, underrecognized way to address the achievement gap,” said Prachi Shah, associate professor of pediatrics, whose research shows that the most curious children perform best in school and disadvantaged kids have the strongest connection between curiosity and performance.
The Guardian (U.K.) -
January 30, 2020
“I have a feeling that it’s going to get worse before it gets better. … The public health control measures have just recently been put into effect. As the mayor of Wuhan has stated, there was a delay in doing this. And now we’re going to pay the price,” said Arnold Monto, professor of epidemiology and global public health, on the outbreak and transmission of the coronavirus that originated in China.
CNBC -
January 29, 2020
“Liberal values are not a veneer, masking a much less pleasant reality. A sizable and growing segment (of the American public) has tolerant liberal views and these views are deep-rooted and enduring,” said Ronald Inglehart, professor emeritus of political science, who sees a generalized transition to more liberal world views — perhaps as a concomitant of voters with college and graduate school degrees.
The New York Times -
January 29, 2020
Getting vaccinated halved the risk of hospitalization for flu-related complications among young kids, according to research by Hannah Segaloff, research fellow in epidemiology: “Over half of our study population had underlying conditions that may put them at high risk for severe influenza-related complications, so preventing influenza in this group is critically important.”
U.S. News & World Report -
January 29, 2020
“The improvements have been on the hard science — figuring out the virus’ genome, building new hospitals at a moment’s notice — more than on the soft science side of managing information and dealing with people,” said Mary Gallagher, professor of political science and director of the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, on the shortage of testing supplies and China’s initial reticence in dealing with the coronavirus outbreak.
Reuters -
January 28, 2020
Most men with HIV know whether they have enough of the virus in their blood to make them contagious, but new research by Rob Stephenson, professor of nursing, and health behavior and health education, found that one in five may mistakenly think they can’t spread the virus even when they can. The results, he says, suggest that some HIV-positive men may not fully understand the public health message that “undetectable equals untransmittable.”
Reuters -
January 28, 2020
“The court avoided making the administration’s deeply unpopular campaign to demolish the ACA a centerpiece of the presidential race. Given that the court has frequently expedited or taken other extraordinary steps in cases of similar import, its refusal to do so in this instance looks an awful lot like an effort to help the Republican Party,” wrote Leah Litman, assistant professor of law, on the Supreme Court’s refusal to consider a challenge to the Affordable Care Act until after the presidential election.
The Washington Post -
January 28, 2020
“Over the span of a decade-long export reform initiative, this is the only instance where lethal weapons have been recategorized as commercial products. At the very time we should be restricting access to military-style firearms, the new regulations aim to normalize them and boost sales,” said Susan Waltz, professor of public policy, on the Trump administration’s easing of regulations on some commercial firearms exports.
CNBC -
January 27, 2020
The scale and complexity of the quarantine in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus broke out last month, is probably unprecedented, says Howard Markel, professor of health management and policy and director of the Center for the History of Medicine: “This is just mind-boggling. I’ve never read about or seen a bigger one than they’re proposing. … It’s a bazooka, not a BB gun.”
The Washington Post -
January 27, 2020
Karyn Lacy, associate professor sociology, and Afroamerican and African studies, discusses in an op-ed the energy that black people expend daily to counteract racial stereotypes and get fair treatment: “I study race and race relations for a living, and I’ve long known that strategizing about ways to avoid or counteract discrimination is an energy-draining task, and for too many, it’s part of everyday life.”
The New York Times
