PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) In a timely and eye-opening new study, researchers at Temple University found a correlation between measures taken by the City of Philadelphia to combat COVID-19 and the surge in gun violence.
A team led by Dr. Jessica Beard, assistant professor of surgery and director of trauma research at Lewis Katz School of Medicine, wanted to know why they were seeing such a huge spike in gun violence patients. It was in March actually that we saw a significant and sustained increase, nearly double of our violence in the City of Philadelphia, said Dr. Beard.
Using public data from the Philadelphia police, from January 2016 through November 26, 2020, they found an alarming correlation.
This research pretty empirically shows that the increase or the uptick in gun violence happened following the enactment of the containment policies, she told the news outlet.
The testing goal far exceeds the university s testing numbers from the fall, when 19,000 coronavirus tests were administered throughout the entire semester, a spokesperson told the Inquirer. The enhanced program is the result of a new medical lab at Temple s medical school that can process up to 26,000 tests per week. .
Students must schedule self-administered, nasal swab tests that will be available at three sites on campus. They will receive test results 12 to 36 hours later.
Students who test negative will be notified by text. Those who test positive will receive a call from Student Health Services with instructions on how to proceed, The Temple News reported.
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