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    Oct 15, 2023Dear members of the Penn community, In the past days and weeks, I have heard from and spoken with many of you, with gratitude for your openness and candor. The University has made public statements denouncing acts of antisemitism on our campus and the terrorist attacks in Israel. Today, as Penn’s President, I want to speak directly and personally to all of you, to share my thoughts and to offer what I hope is some measure of clarity and comfort in this difficult time.

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    • “I want to leave no doubt about where I stand. I, and this University, are horrified by and condemn Hamas’s terrorist assault on Israel and their violent atrocities against civilians. There is no justification—none—for these heinous attacks…” https://t.co/cMLllsdSQ8

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    Covid-19 hospitalizations have been on the rise in the United States for months, with weekly admissions now more than triple what they were two months ago. Seniors have the highest rates of Covid hospitalizations by far, but hospitalizations among children — especially among those younger than 5 — are rising fast.

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    • “CDC forecasting models suggest that weekly hospitalization rates will continue to rise, most likely to double what they are now by the season’s peak in December.” https://t.co/XcX3yTl78x

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    Karla Soares-Weiser, Editor-in-Chief of the Cochrane Library, has responded on behalf of Cochrane: Many commentators have claimed that a recently-updated Cochrane Review shows that ‘masks don’t work’, which is an inaccurate and misleading interpretation. It would be accurate to say that the review examined whether interventions to promote mask wearing help to slow the spread of respiratory viruses, and that the results were inconclusive. Given the limitations in the primary evidence, the review is not

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    • This is what the Editor-in-Chief of Cochran says about the published review of masks. @smerconish https://t.co/MNqe2bG6tI https://t.co/h5kVNtu22a

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    The language has been experiencing something of a revival.

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    • “Given everything Yiddish has gone through…how it was pushed to the crematories by the Nazis, how after the Shoah it thrived in some diasporas but was pushed aside in others — its sheer endurance is nothing short of miraculous”. Like the Jewish people. https://t.co/1GsD160B6X