Population Health

3 Ways to Encourage Universal Mask-Wearing

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

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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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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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5 Ways to Reopen America Safely

A safe approach to opening the economy will look different in different parts of the country....

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A Novel Idea for Safely Reopening the Economy

A 3-day lag between infection and spread of COVID-19 could help us get back to work safely, according to one model....

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How to Combat Delirium in COVID-19 Patients

The coronavirus pandemic has created conditions that cause delirium....

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COVID-19 Pandemic Could Last 1-2 Years

The novel coronavirus will be with us for a long time, according to 2 analyses....

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Strengthening the Aging Immune System to Fight COVID-19

How a geroscience approach to viruses like COVID-19 might help more older people survive....

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Why Only 61 Australians Have Died from COVID-19

Australia has important lessons to teach us about the benefits of a centralized response to COVID-19....

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