May 11, 2021
2399 new cases of COVID-19 were reported Monday by the state Department of Health. Those numbers are over a two-day period. Monday s report showed only 1023 new cases, the lowest daily number since last October. 18 new COVID-related deaths were reported over the same two-day period. Statewide percent positivity for the seven days ending May 6 stood at 6.6-percent.
21 Pennsylvania senators are asking Gov. Tom Wolf to move up the removal of of most coronavirus restrictions. 20 of those senators are Republican. The lone Democrat is the Lehigh Valley s Lisa Boscola. The governor plans to remove all but the mask mandate on May 31st, Memorial Day. The 21 senators are pushing him to move that up to the Friday before Memorial Day, May 28th. The governor s office responds by saying those 21 senators would be better served by pushing residents to get vaccinated.
The world according to Walter Palmer The educator, organizer, and alumnus discusses his six decades of activism, growing up in the Black Bottom, studying and teaching at Penn, his work at CHOP, the student strike of 1967, the Vietnam War, Frank Rizzo, Donald Trump, school choice, gun violence, the Chauvin trial, and why he thinks racism should be declared a national public health crisis. Image: Eric Sucar
Two weeks before he was assassinated in 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. called organizer and activist Walter Palmer to discuss some concerns Black youth in Philadelphia had about King’s commitment to the anti-war movement. The youth asked Palmer to speak with King and let him know of their grievances.
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IMAGE: A genetic condition known as 22q.11.2 deletion syndrome is associated with an increased risk of schizophrenia. A Penn Vet-led team found that a leaky blood-brain barrier, allowing inappropriate immune involvement. view more
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Like a stern bodyguard for the central nervous sytem, the blood-brain barrier keeps out anything that could lead to disease and dangerous inflammation at least when all is functioning normally.
That may not be the case in people with schizophrenia and other mental disorders, suggest new findings from a team led by researchers from the School of Veterinary Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, and Children s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). In these individuals, a more permissive barrier appears to allow the immune system to get improperly involved in the central nervous system, the researchers showed. The inflammation that arises likely contributes to the clinical manifestations of neuropsychi