Bloomberg

How Philadelphia plans to beat the looming eviction cliff

Vincent Reina of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design said Philadelphia’s approach to delaying evictions requires landlords to pursue alternatives before ousting tenants. “In our greater scheme of housing policy, we often focus on enforcement mechanisms while we lack the resources to create incentives,” he said. “If localities want to be proactive in protecting households from eviction, they can connect enforcement around evictions to those resources.”

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Scientific American

There are few good COVID antivirals, but that could be changing

Sara Cherry of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about the arduous process of developing antiviral drugs to treat COVID-19. “Most of the compounds that work in cells ultimately fail in animal studies for lots of reasons,” she said. Of the compounds that remain, just a few make it to the animal testing stage.

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MIT Technology Review

Pfizer wants to give you a booster shot—but experts say it’s too soon

John Wherry of the Perelman School of Medicine said the existing COVID-19 vaccines appear to be holding up, even without booster shots. “Severe infections, hospitalizations and deaths are being observed almost entirely in unvaccinated populations, even for the delta variant,” he said.

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The New York Times

How to raise kids who won’t be racist

Howard Stevenson of the Graduate School of Education offered tips for how parents can address racist or insensitive comments made by children. “Get a sense of what they understand it to mean from their perspective,” he said. “Where did they hear it from? How is it being used in the social context they’re in? Then you have a better angle to how you can speak to it.”

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  • Center for Improving Care Delivery for the Aging’s new research cohort

    Penn’s Center for Improving Care Delivery for the Aging has announced three new postdoctoral and junior faculty to become the program’s fourth cohort of Scholars pursuing pilot research and receiving training and mentorship in health services research.

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    Jupiter Blue

    Rotunda building exterior
    The Rotunda at Penn and Bowerbird present the duo Jupiter Blue as part of the Liminal States series. Liminal States welcomes artists who perform late-night concerts for falling asleep.

    11:00 p.m.

    Virtual

    From the Department of Computer and Information Science

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    Global Guide Tour

    Exterior of Penn Museum in daylight.
    Global Guides take guests on a tour of the Mexico and Central America Gallery, examining artifacts from Maya and Aztec civilizations. The tour is led by immigrants and refugees.

    3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

    Penn Museum, 3260 South St.

    Los Angeles Times

    Thanks to the pandemic, we now also have ‘an epidemic of sleep deprivation’

    Michael Perlis of the Perelman School of Medicine said it’s normal for sleep to suffer under stressful circumstances, such as a pandemic. “Evolution or God programmed us not to sleep when there’s a perceived threat,” he said. “If you have a lion looking at you and licking its lips, you shouldn’t go to sleep.”

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    The Wall Street Journal

    Are latent viruses causing long COVID-19 symptoms? Patient groups push for testing

    Benjamin Abramoff of the Perelman School of Medicine said that the Post-COVID Assessment and Recovery Clinic doesn’t test patients for viral reactivation. “Given that these are seen in other disease processes, we do not think this is likely the driver of long-term symptoms,” he said.

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