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Random testing in Indiana shows COVID-19 is 6 times deadlier than flu, and 2.8% of the state has been infected

  • Written by Nir Menachemi, Professor of Health Policy and Management, IUPUI
imageRandom testing conducted in Indiana gives public health officials some of the most representative and accurate data to date.AP Photo/Darron Cummings

Since day one of the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. has not had enough tests. Faced with this shortage, medical professionals used what tests they had on people with the worst symptoms or whose...

Read more: Random testing in Indiana shows COVID-19 is 6 times deadlier than flu, and 2.8% of the state has...

Georgia's election disaster shows how bad voting in 2020 can be

  • Written by Adrienne Jones, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Morehouse College
imageGeorgia voters brought folding chairs, books, laptop computers and plenty of patience to the polls on June.Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images

As the nation mourns civil rights icon John Lewis, a congressman and lifelong advocate of voting rights, the mayhem in his home state’s most recent election serves as another egregious example of how a...

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'In a perfectly just republic,' Bella Abzug – born a century ago – would have been president

  • Written by Pamela S. Nadell, Professor and Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women's & Gender History and Director of the Jewish Studies Program, American University
imageRep. Bella Abzug, center, with Rep. Shirley Chisholm to her left, join antiwar activists marking the opening of the 92nd Congress with a peace demonstration on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. Bettmann / Contributor/Getty

One hundred years ago, on July 24, 1920, Bella Savitzky was “born yelling” in the Bronx, a month before the 19th...

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Coronavirus numbers confusing you? Here's how to make sense of them

  • Written by Pamela M. Aaltonen, Professor Emerita; Immediate Past President, APHA, Purdue University
imageIn Irvine, Calif., a COVID-19 test is retrieved from a drive-in patient at Orange County Great Park. For four weeks, the testing station will see 520 patients per day. Getty Images / Allen J. Schaben

Turn on the TV news, or look at a news website, and you’ll see charts, graphics, and dashboards that supposedly indicate the latest with...

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Russian cyberthreat extends to coronavirus vaccine research

  • Written by Dorothy Denning, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Defense Analysis, Naval Postgraduate School
imageWho are in the hoodies?BeeBright/iStock/Getty Images Plus

A Russian cyberespionage group that hacked into election networks before the 2016 U.S. presidential election is now attempting to steal coronavirus vaccine information from researchers in the U.S., U.K. and Canada. The governments of those three countries issued a warning on July 16 saying...

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Social networks aim to erase hate but miss the target on guns

  • Written by Adam G. Klein, Associate Professor of Media Studies, Pace University
imageImagery and talk of guns can often be thinly veiled forms of threats.Zach Gibson/Getty Images

As Facebook faces down a costly boycott campaign demanding the social network do more to combat hate speech, CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced plans to ban a “wider category of hateful content in ads.” Twitter, YouTube and Reddit have also...

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Could employers and states mandate COVID-19 vaccinations? Here's what the courts have ruled

  • Written by Debbie Kaminer, Law Professor, Baruch College, CUNY
imageThe federal government is fast-tracking some potential coronavirus vaccines currently in clinical trials.AP Photo/Ted S. Warren

A safe and effective vaccine could end the coronavirus pandemic, but for it to succeed, enough people will have to get inoculated.

Recent polls suggest that the U.S. is far from ready. Most surveys have found that onlyabout...

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Black men face high discrimination and depression, even as their education and incomes rise

  • Written by Shervin Assari, Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
imageSix of the author's studies show health disparities due to both race and gender.Getty Images / Juanmonino

Are you a highly educated and relatively wealthy Black man in the U.S.? Studies that we have done and also those by others show that you are at increased risk of discrimination and depression. Our research on the intersection of race and gender...

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Colleges expect athletes to work but not to air any grievances – here's why that's wrong

  • Written by Erin Hatton, Associate Professor of Sociology, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
imageThe world of college athletics promises many opportunities to young players, but at what cost?Thomas Barwick/GettyImages

When Northwestern University created its 2013 football team handbook, the guide included a list of 50 “Twitter tips” for the athletes.

Tip #10 told the players not to use Twitter as “an outlet to complain about...

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New teachers mistakenly assume Black students are angry

  • Written by Alison Cooke, Ph.D. Candidate of Psychology, North Carolina State University
imageAfrican American students are disproportionately punished, starting in preschool.Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

The big idea

College students who are training to become teachers are 36% more likely to mistakenly believe that a Black child is angry when that child...

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