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To reduce vaccine hesitancy, language matters in building public trust

Study finds that the same information, presented in a different language, can boost confidence By Max Witynski, UChicago News Office Building pu...

How sure are we about the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines?

Hypothetical case replacement can be used to quantify the robustness of trial results Once a vaccine is approved for distribution to the full popul...

Creating history’: Students interview essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

This story was originally published by UChicago News. Read it on their site here. Oral history project preserves stories of frontline workers in Univ...

MarketWatch: ‘Deaths of despair’ during COVID-19 have risen significantly in 2020, new research says, Prof. Casey Mulligan explains his new research on the Covid-19 pandemic and heightened rates of "deaths of despair" in America

The Guardian: The Covid crisis has shown how privatisation corrodes democracy, in Op-ed, Assoc. Prof. Chiara Cordelli argues that in outsourcing medical services to the private sector, the U.K. has failed its citizens

Washington Post: After a year of pandemic and protest, and a big election, America is as divided as ever, Prof. Cathy Cohen discusses the political and social challenges Joe Biden will face as president

CNN: The Wuhan files - Leaked documents reveal China's mishandling of the early stages of Covid-19, Prof. Dali Yang discusses early global perceptions of the emerging COVID pandemic

CNN: Breaking up in Covid-19 times has new woes, Prof. Linda Waite discusses the social and relational impact of the pandemic

Politico: What our experts would ask Biden and Trump, Marynia Kolak (Asst. Director of Health Informatics @ CSDS) shares what she would ask in the debate

AJC - Front-line workers this Labor Day: essential, but not secure, Asst. Prof Simon Mongey discusses Covid-19 job losses and the communities most impacted by them