The Atlantic quoted Paul Irving on the impact of COVID-19 on retirement and older adults. “In past economic downturns, when employers do layoffs and reductions in force, older adults tend to be sidelined,” Irving says. “They are often the first to be fired and the last to be rehired.”
U.S. News and World Report featured a column co-authored by Distinguished Scholar in Residence Paul Irving on the need to increase resilience and reduce chronic illness as a way to defeat COVID-19 as vaccines and therapies are still in the works. The authors call for a national campaign to address the “other epidemic” of chronic disease.
Assistant Professor Bérénice Benayoun named to Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences, which includes a four-year research grant for her project investigating sex differences in aging.
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AARP quoted Distinguished Scholar in Residence Paul Irving in an article about how teleworking opportunities benefit older workers: “The world will look much older in the decades to come, and employers must adapt to this demographic shift.”
Los Angeles Times quoted Reginald Tucker-Seeley of the USC Leonard Davis School on how the COVID-19 pandemic is not affecting everyone equally.
NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV featured Jennifer Ailshire of the USC Leonard Davis School on the need for physical contact among humans. “We’re social creatures, and as social animals, we can’t survive without each other,” she said.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences quoted University Professor Caleb Finch on his research regarding how air pollution harms the brain. The EPA doesn’t cite the impact of air pollution on the brain, nor do US regulations such as the 2015 Clean Power Plan; “We’ve almost entirely ignored the brain,” says Finch.
Chemical & Engineering News mentioned research led by Caleb Finch on how air pollution can harm the brain.
Understanding the rate of mutation in the virus’ genes could help create a more widely effective vaccine, says Assistant Professor Marc Vermulst.
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Vox quoted Jessica Ho on why the real number of COVID-19 deaths may be higher than the government’s official totals. “It‘s possible that emergency response teams, hospitals, and nursing home facilities overburdened with coronavirus have been unable to effectively prevent deaths from other causes they would ordinarily have been able to,” Ho said.
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