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School Daze with COVID: Locally and Across America

NOTE: After this was published, Bucknell reported an increase in cases and in an effort to tamp down any growth beyond whatever is already baked in, issued a shelter-in-place order for campus. The impact both on the university and on the larger community will be playing out over the next few weeks. As mentioned in […]

Dunning-Kruger Strikes Again

People involved with Walk It! Bike It! Lewisburg over the past few years may recall an effort to call attention to a little known book called Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us). We wrote a post on the website summarizing a key chapter from that book in hopes that the phenomenon it describes […]

Mitigation Measures 201

Masks... distancing... hygiene... oh my! We seem to be getting the idea that this is what we're supposed to be doing, even if not everyone is on board and it can be hard to remember all the time. But what else is there? It can be confusing as we try to resume some semblance of […]

Union County COVID Diary — August in Retrospect

This article was originally published in The Daily Item on Sunday, September 6, in the Opinion Section. We know that COVID-19 does not affect all demographics uniformly, but new analysis from the independent journalism site, the Marshall Project, paints a stark picture of disparate racial impacts. Plotting excess deaths (not specific to COVID-19, but during […]

Voting in the Time of COVID

(This information is specific to Pennsylvania! If you are in another state, your election laws and ways to find out about the status of coronavirus transmission will be different. The general principles of assessing your local situation and your own level of risk, holds. Make a plan to vote now!) Election season is upon us. […]

Back To School Looks… Different

UPDATE (8/14): During school board meetings this week, both Mifflinburg Area School District and Lewisburg Area School District voted in favor of delaying their start dates until after Labor Day. The hope is this will provide time for the recent increase in cases to subside and offer conditions suitable for opening for face-to-face instruction. UPDATE […]

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