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Masking Emotions: Face Masks Impair How We Read Emotions, studies the impact of masks on toddlers, older children, and adults for recognizing emotional expression, May 2021 |
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The Implications of Face Masks for Babies and Families During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Discussion Paper explores the possible long-term negative effects of masks for bonding and social development in infants, children, and families, February 2021 |
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Bioethics and COVID-19: The Tension of Quarantine and Civil Liberties applies current US public health law to the pandemic, Summer 2020 |
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The Unequal Cost of Social Distancing discusses the disparate impact of social distancing on already disadvantaged individuals and households |
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A Harm Reduction Approach to Physical Distancing, by Daniel Weinstock suggests thinking about space and time more creatively to make maintaining distance more plausible in the longer term, April 21, 2020 |
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Center faculty member Alan Meisel is quoted in this USA Today Fact check: No mask? You can ask why — it isn’t against HIPAA or the Fourth or Fifth Amendments, July 20, 2020 |
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Angela Merkel explains the risks of loosening social distancing too rapidly in this video clip with subtitles |
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Scientific and Ethical Basis for Social-Distancing Interventions Against COVID-1, a March 23, 2020 article from The Lancet Infectious Diseases that foretold many of the consequences experiences, while providing the rationale for the policies pursued |
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This 3-D Simulation Shows Why Social [sic. Physical] Distancing Is So Important; it the spread of coronavirus from a cough, sneeze, or conversation. A video at the end demonstrates through augmented reality technology what physical distancing looks like as one moves through a supermarket; the augmented reality technology may be downloaded for personal use in one’s own space |
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Cannonsburg-based Ansys is also developing 3D simulations to encourage physical distancing, such as this comparison of the difference between 3 feet and 6 feet distancing in the presence of a cough |
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Dr. David Price of Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City shares information in a Zoom call with family and friends on empowering and protecting families during the COVID-19 pandemic. Note that this was produced March 22, 2020; nevertheless, much of the advice and explanation remains relevant, and its practical, measured approach seems both empowering and comforting. Further note: Since this video was made, all individuals are now being asked, and in many cases required, to cover their nose and mouth—using a nonmedical face mask or scarf—when they leave their homes, to avoid unknowingly transmitting the coronavirus. See:
The evolution of advice regarding mask-wearing reflects evolving evidence that the virus is transmitted in ways not initially appreciated; see these articles and a two-day workshop from the National Academies:
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