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Editor's note
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With a surge of critically ill COVID-19 patients, several states are providing doctors guidelines to allocate scarce resources such as ventilators to those who are more likely to survive. These policies will predictably favor younger patients over older and healthier over those with chronic diseases.
While this may seem to be best way of saving as many lives as possible, University of Virginia legal scholar Deborah Hellman, who studies discrimination, argues that some groups will end up suffering more than others – and among them will be those with disabilities.
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Kalpana Jain
Senior Religion + Ethics Editor
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With a large number of patients with COVID-19, doctors face difficult choices.
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Deborah Hellman, University of Virginia
Doctors face difficult choices about rationing medical care. A scholar who studies discrimination argues that those with chronic illnesses and disabilities will be hit the hardest.
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Politics + Society
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Jennifer Selin, University of Missouri-Columbia
Throughout the coronavirus crisis, President Trump has made inconsistent statements about who is responsible for key aspects of the nation’s response to the pandemic. The Constitution has the answer.
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Klaus W. Larres, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Beijing is touting its role in the world and praising its autocratic governmental system and its huge countrywide surveillance network. Hawks in Washington aren't impressed.
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Sarah R. Warren, Florida State University; Daniel Maier-Katkin, Florida State University; Nathan Stoltzfus, Florida State University
A trove of essays long forgotten in the archives of the Hoover Institution give insight into what attracted everyday women to extremist ideology.
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Arts + Culture
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Murray Edelman, Seton Hall University
Nearly three-quarters of fans say they won’t attend games until a vaccine has been developed.
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Health
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Anurag Papolu, The Conversation
It is not surprising that being unhealthy makes you more vulnerable to COVID-19 infection. But what may worry you is just how many Americans are in this high-risk group.
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Lucy Wilson, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
It is impossible to anticipate if, how or when COVID-19 might take a loved one. But there are ways to prepare.
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Economy + Business
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Gretchen Chapman, Carnegie Mellon University; George Loewenstein, Carnegie Mellon University
Policymakers need to figure out ways to sustain the behaviors that are helping flatten the curve as cities begin to end their lockdowns.
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Cheryl Carleton, Villanova University
As more and more Americans are laid off, employers have to consider the cost of letting their staff go.
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Science + Technology
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Amit Sheth, University of South Carolina
America's news reports and social media chatter open a window into the nation's psyche. An AI-based text analysis of these words shows that the coronavirus is driving up familiar social ills.
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Inga Popovaite, University of Iowa
Understanding isolation's effects on regular people, rather than those certified to have 'the right stuff,' will help prepare us for the future, whether another pandemic or interplanetary space travel.
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Annette O'Connor, Michigan State University; Jan Sargeant, University of Guelph; Sarah Totton, University of Guelph
Both cats and dogs can become infected with the coronavirus. The chances of them getting sick or passing it on to you or another animal are extremely low.
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Education
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Leslie E. Roos, University of Manitoba; Jessica Flannery, University of Oregon
Family stress can go through the roof when managing social isolation or pandemic anxiety. A researcher of parent-child relationships offers practical tips to make time together more enjoyable.
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Maura Chhun, Metropolitan State University
When the 1918 influenza pandemic struck India, the death toll was highest among the poor.
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Kathryn McKinley, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Then – as now – the wealthy fled to the countryside, while the urban poor were forced to work on the front lines.
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Patricia L. Foster, Indiana University
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