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Q+A
Redefining the K-12 experience
Published Aug 6, 2020
As K-12 school leaders finalize decisions for what fall 2020 will look like, the COVID-19 pandemic—still surging unabated across the U.S.—complicates every possible solution. Beneath all is an impossibly high-stakes debate, pitting the risks to public health against the importance of sustaining the academic and social growth of students.
Lisa Cooper
Health equity
The silver lining of COVID-19's dark clouds
Published Aug 25, 2020
Johns Hopkins expert in health disparities discusses how the coronavirus pandemic has shed light on the vulnerabilities of communities of color and the need to better protect everyone's health
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Q+A
Data collection during COVID-19 offers benefits—and poses hazards
Published July 24, 2020
As online activity rises during the pandemic, internet companies must strike a balance between data collection and protecting consumer privacy, says economist Itay Fainmesser
Baltimore Black Lives Matter protest
Q+A
The persistence of racism in America: What comes next?
Published June 23, 2020
Historian and Baltimore resident Martha Jones discusses the role of Black women in the fight for equality and justice and the overdue need for honest reflection about the roots of a worldwide protest movement
Mounting evidence suggests coronavirus is airborne
July 16, 2020
Johns Hopkins sociologist decries viewing protests 'through the lens of war'
June 4, 2020
How school closures for COVID-19 amplify inequality
May 4, 2020

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Commentary
A 'healthy debate' on convalescent plasma
Published Sept 24, 2020
Hopkins immunologist Arturo Casadevall explains the different federal responses to the COVID-19 treatment and why it's normal to lack consensus in science / The Wall Street Journal
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COVID-19 hobbies
Published Fall 2020
We asked readers: How have you been keeping busy (and sane) while staying safer at home? / Johns Hopkins Magazine
A doctor administers a vaccine to a masked woman
COVID-19
Why the suspended AstraZeneca trial is good news for vaccine safety
Published Sept 10, 2020
Emergency medicine specialist Lauren Sauer tells 'Bloomberg' that although the setback delays coronavirus vaccine development, the final product will be safer for the public / Bloomberg
Patients and nurses in a hospital intensive care unit
Q+A
Excess deaths show the true impact of COVID-19 in the U.S.
Published Sept 1, 2020
Epidemiologist Justin Lessler unpacks a recent CDC report on comorbidities and coronavirus deaths that is being misinterpreted on social media
Lisa Cooper
Health equity
The silver lining of COVID-19's dark clouds
Published Aug 25, 2020
Johns Hopkins expert in health disparities discusses how the coronavirus pandemic has shed light on the vulnerabilities of communities of color and the need to better protect everyone's health
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