The pandemic presents an opportunity to rethink the way we do clinical research, write Stephen Kimmel, MD, MSCE, and collaborators.

M. Kit Delgado, MD, MS, comments on the safety of ride sharing services during the COVID-19 crisis.

Jordana Cohen, MD, MSCE, and co-investigator Julio Chirinos, MD, launched an international, multisite study to find out more about how ACE inhibitors and ARBS affect COVID-19. They are cautious about the drugs’ effects until they finish their research.

Peter Reese, MD, MSCE, and co-authors outline strategies to help save financially vulnerable safety-net hospitals that are on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic and at the risk of bankruptcy.

Health officials need good reporting to “understand the relationship between the epidemic that we can’t see, and the data that we can see,” commented Michael Levy, PhD.

To reopen schools safely amidst the continuing pandemic, group Philadelphia school students into small, closed “pods” that meet outdoors as much as possible, recommend Michael Z. Levy, PhD, and Penn colleague Alison Buttenheim, PhD, MBA.

On Philadelphia local television, Michael Levy, PhD, elaborated on the difficulties of mixing data from COVID-19 genetic tests and antibody tests.

An update to data from a team that includes Jing Huang, PhD, and Gregory Tasian, MD, MsC, MSCE, shows that a cautious, incremental reopening strategy can help mitigate risk for a second wave. But some areas that have too quickly relaxed social distancing face high risk for resurgence. 

Per Michael Levy, PhD, a contrast between the rates in a high-income zip code and, say, Chester City would be glaring.

Michael Z. Levy, PhD, commented in Spanish on regional station Telemundo 62 about COVID-19 in the Philadelphia area. His message: “The first wave hit us hard; we weren't ready. Now we can prepare and get our balance for the next one.”