What’s the Evidence for Wearing Masks?

If 80% of people wear a mask in public, COVID-19 transmission could be halted....

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3 Ways to Encourage Universal Mask-Wearing

Make mask-wearing easy, understood, and expected, write 3 Penn professors....

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Your Response to the Coronavirus Could Lie in Your Genes

Why do some people die from COVID-19 infection while others don’t even show symptoms?...

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Hispanic Older Adults: Financial Impact of COVID-19

The financial hardships created by the COVID-19 pandemic will impact the economic security of all older adults, but it will hurt older Hispanics the most....

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Helping Affordable Housing Communities Fight COVID-19

Federal, state, and local policy makers must recognize that publicly subsidized senior housing communities are hotspots for COVID-19 infection and spread....

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The Invisible COVID Workforce: Direct Care Workers

Our COVID-19 response has not recognized the importance of the invisible direct care workforce....

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Study: Social Distancing Reduced COVID-19 Growth Rate

COVID-19 spread would have been 35 times greater without 4 social distancing measures....

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How the Coronavirus Could Change Home Health Care

The pandemic offers us the opportunity to expand the home care workforce....

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Mortality Among Older COVID-19 Patients in New York

Age and chronic disease were associated with death among older COVID-19 patients in New York City, according to a new study....

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The Data Gap That’s Undermining Our Pandemic Response

Without testing data, the U.S. response to the coronavirus will continue to fall short....

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