It’s spring 2021. It’s Friday at dusk. Gaggles of curious teenagers are gathering for an unfamiliar event designed to salvage a high school year that hardly was and pump an unaccustomed feeling into their final weeks as juniors and seniors — joy. Call it prom-ish. In the early weekends of […]
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We don’t need eco-loons like Thomas Heatherwick designing post-Covid Britain
What will our cities look like, post-pandemic? One side-effect of lockdown politics has been the rush by politicians, “thought leaders” and other wonks to use Covid as a pretext to impose their obsessions on the rest of us – none more so than the environmentalist agenda, with “build back better” […]
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Ditch the Waiting Room (and Other Post-COVID Ideas)
Hi, everyone. I’m Dr Kenny Lin. I am a family physician at Georgetown University Medical Center, and I blog at Common Sense Family Doctor. Kenneth W. Lin, MD, MPH 2020 was a very tough year for primary care clinicians, even when we weren’t regularly treating patients with COVID-19. Last spring, […]
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How Will Our Homes Adapt to a Post-COVID World?
Photo credit: Illustration by Leonie Bos From ELLE Decor In the months since the COVID-19 pandemic began wreaking havoc on our way of life, it’s become clear that things may not return to the way they were. And that’s not a bad thing. Residential design has always evolved during times […]
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Virtual Lab Components Have a Future Post-COVID Say Cornell Professors
While many professors have used online simulations instead of physical laboratories to lower the risk of COVID-19 transmission, some think that simulations they are using now could be helpful in the future. According to some Cornell professors, simulations have the potential to make laboratory education more accessible to students who […]
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Transforming Homes And Communities Into Healthcare Hubs In The Post-Covid Future
Hospital design experts Ryan Hullinger and Sarah Markovitz discuss the inevitable shifts in healthcare delivery as technology leads to new care settings and rethinking hospitals. Rendering of a patient speaking to several clinicians from home. NBBJ The explosion of telehealth prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated a shift in […]