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Next City (via The Conversation) featured commentary by Dana Goldman of the USC Schaeffer Center and Reginald Tucker-Seeley of the USC Leonard Davis School on how to fix inequalities in American health care. “Including patients of color in clinical trials to test new drugs is vital to learn how well new interventions work across the entire population,” they wrote.
Discover Magazine featured research by Andrei Irimia of the USC Leonard Davis School and the USC Viterbi School on the healthy aging of the indigenous Tsimane people in Bolivia. “The healthy diet of the Tsimane is likely protective of their brains and their hearts,” he said.
CNN featured research by Theresa Andrasfay of the USC Leonard Davis School and a colleague on how COVID-19 has impacted U.S. life expectancy, especially among Black and Latino populations. “This unprecedented change likely stems from social and economic inequities that are associated with both higher exposure to infection and higher fatality among those infected,” they wrote. Additional coverage was found in The Guardian, the New York Daily News and Axios.
USA Today featured Jessica Ho of the USC Leonard Davis School on life expectancy falling in the United States during the pandemic. “Going in, we already expected the U.S. was going to be hit quite harder, but the question was, how much does it put us back,” she said.
MarketWatch featured research by Andrei Irimia of the USC Leonard Davis School and the USC Viterbi School on the healthy aging of the indigenous Tsimane people in Bolivia. “They have the lowest incidence of heart disease of all the people’s known to science, and they seem to have much slower rates of brain atrophy with age,” he said.