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.
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.
Los Angeles Daily News featured Jennifer Ailshire of the USC Leonard Davis School on keeping older adults at assisted living facilities in good health. “Next to medical services, it’s generally agreed upon that daily physical activity and cognitively stimulating social activities are the most important thing,” she said.
Consumer Affairs featured research from Valter Longo of the USC Leonard Davis School on how a combination of fasting and vitamin C could help treat aggressive forms of cancer. “For the first time, we have demonstrated how a completely non-toxic intervention can effectively treat aggressive forms of cancer,” he said.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Fairfield Citizen (via The Conversation) published an opinion column authored by Caroline Cicero and Paul Nash on ageist narratives during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Aging is something we will all experience, if we’re lucky. Yet ageism is arguably the last widely accepted form of social prejudice,” they said.
CityLab quoted Edward Schneider on how seniors are staying busy during the COVID-19 lockdown. “My day starts at 5:30 in the morning and ends at 8:30 or 9 at night, and I’m busy the entire time,” he said. “I don’t feel terribly isolated — although I am isolated, because I’m 80 years old — but I’m interacting with people all the time.”
Bloomberg quoted Ed Schneider on the social impacts of COVID-19-induced isolation. Schneider said he thinks the disease will have a more lasting impact on young people than seniors: “We’ve either been through it or we’ve heard about it and therefore as bad as it is, we can deal with it.”
Los Angeles Times quoted Eileen Crimmins of the USC Leonard Davis School on how comorbidities may be impacting the coronavirus death toll. “What we think is there is some combination of COVID deaths that are not declared COVID deaths and other deaths that are due to other causes people have not gotten treatment for, or have delayed treatment,” Crimmins said.
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