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                COVID-19 risk model uses hospital data to guide decisions on social distancing
July 29, 2020
                Northwestern University and University of Texas at Austin researchers have created a framework that will help local entities know when to tighten social distancing measures to prevent COVID-19 spread.
                    
                    
                
            
        
                Northwestern partners with Evanston on Good Neighbor Racial Equity Fund
July 29, 2020
                Northwestern President Morton Schapiro and Evanston Mayor Stephen Hagerty unveiled the Northwestern Good Neighbor Racial Equity Fund that builds on the University’s Good Neighbor Fund.
                    
                    
                
            
        
                ‘Baseball is a microcosm for this time,’ showcasing creativity through challenges
July 28, 2020
                A surge of positive COVID-19 diagnoses among MLB players could further disrupt the baseball season, creating a lasting impact on American culture, experts say.
                    
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                Northwestern launches COVID-19 registry for vaccine trials
July 27, 2020
                Northwestern Medicine has launched a COVID Prevention Trials Registry for people who are interested in participating in COVID-19 clinical trials to prevent infection from the virus.
                    
                    
                
            
        Experts available to media on Republicans' plan to cut unemployment benefits
July 23, 2020
                Experts talk about the impact cutting the unemployment benefits, set to expire at the end of July, will have on vulnerable families and what polarization around the issues says about the Democratic and Republican parties.   
                    
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                Spectacular ultraviolet flash may finally explain how white dwarfs explode
July 23, 2020
                The extremely rare type of supernova is poised to offer insights into dark energy, the creation of heavy metals and the mechanism that causes white dwarfs to explode.
                    
                    
                
            
        
                Popular hypertension drugs don’t increase risk of COVID-19 severity, fatality
July 21, 2020
                A new Northwestern study found popular hypertension drugs used to treat patients with hypertension, cardiovascular disease and diabetic kidney disease does not increase the risk of COVID-19.
                    
                    
                
            
        
                ‘His activism was a holy crusade’
July 20, 2020
                John Lewis, who passed away on Friday at the age of 80, is remembered by Northwestern professors in history, political science and sociology. 
                    
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                More lonely deaths in hospitals and nursing homes from COVID
July 17, 2020
                Patients who died from COVID in 2020 were almost 12 times more likely to die in a medical facility than patients who died from any cause in 2018, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.
                    
                    
                
            
        
                'Imagine U Storytime' continues with new stories through Aug. 9
July 17, 2020
                Stories and music drawn from children’s books by Ogden Nash, Roald Dahl and Kevin Henkes are included in the latest round of “Imagine U Storytime” videos on the Wirtz Center YouTube channel.