Why social distancing for the whole population is *not* an overreaction.

Younger people listen up: 55% of NYS #Coronavirus cases are ages 18-49. Young people aren’t invincible. You can get this and you can give it to someone older you love. You shouldn’t endanger your own health & you certainly shouldn't endanger other people's health. #StayAtHome

Love this > the Rotterdam Philharmonic plays Beethoven's Ninth with each of the performers "sheltering in place" at home. slippedisc.com/2020/03/believ…

Here are some important questions to be asking now about the future of health care after #COVID19, by Robert Huckman hbr.org/2020/04/what-w…

Four strategies to facilitate care of non-Covid patients even as hospitals are stretched to absorb waves of patients with the virus: s.hbr.org/2CxNtRu

Covid-19 is overwhelming hospitals again. We must manage hospital capacity to meet the needs of non-Covid patients, too. Just out in Harvard Business Review today, Ghideon Ezaz, Ryan Greysen, Scott Halpern, Rachel Kohn, and I propose 4 strategies for how to do this. hbr.org/2020/07/how-ho…

When #COVID19 plowed through NYC like a tidal wave, the chances of survival heavily depended on the hospital you were treated in. In hard hit outer borough/public hospitals, the mortality rate was 3x higher than Manhattan private hospitals. A thread: nytimes.com/2020/07/01/nyr…

🚨 NEW BLOG ALERT: LDI Fellows Alon Bergman, Hummy Song, Angela Chen, Guy David, @AriBFriedman, Amy Bond & colleagues find that ‘clearing the queue’ of mammograms postponed early in the #pandemic would take at least 5 months. Read more 👇 ldi.upenn.edu/healthpolicyse…

🚨 New NBER WP: We document the impact of business closure policies on #COVID19 infection rates among essential v nonessential workers and their cohabitants, with @McKennaEcon, Angela Chen, Guy David, and Aaron Smith-McLallen. nber.org/papers/w28374

Exploring the extent to which being designated an essential or non-essential worker impacts one’s risk of being Covid-positive following PA’s non-essential business closure order, from @hummysong, @McKennaEcon, Angela Chen, Guy David, and Aaron Smith-McLallen nber.org/papers/w28374

When #COVID19 began its insidious march across the globe more than a year ago, it disrupted every industry. We asked Wharton's Nancy Rothbard, Jeremy Siegel, Hummy Song, Mike Useem, Barbara Kahn and Gad Allon to tell us what they see in store for the rest of 2021.

Was a pleasure joining @WhartonBizDaily to talk about how much additional risk was being borne by #EssentialWorkers and their household members in the early months of the #COVID19 pandemic: shows.acast.com/wharton-on-sir…

🚨Pre-doc Announcement🚨 Hummy Song and I are hiring a research associate to start in Summer 2022. Interested in marketing analytics, causal inference, health economics and healthcare operations mgmt? Come work with us The Wharton School! Details: ron-berman.com/wp-content/upl… Please RT!

Data can help hospitals make triage, admission, and discharge decisions. Here's how. hbr.org/2022/01/how-di…

Hospitals could benefit from a data-driven approach to patient flow, staffing, scheduling, and supply chain management. hbr.org/2022/01/how-di…

Recent research covering #nursing turnover shows that inconsistency in schedules driven by employers increases workers’ likelihood of quitting: 📄 spkl.io/60104P20C Alon Bergman, Guy David, Hummy Song The Wharton School Penn

#BREAKING: Dr Paul Farmer, a renowned American physician and co-founder of Partners in Health Partners In Health, has died aged 62. Farmer was a receipt of the National Order of Outstanding Friendship (Igihango), which he was conferred upon by President #Kagame in August 2019.

new paper with Hummy Song and Song-Hee Kim about how people learn from teammates. check it out if you're interested in teams or in using archival data to understand org processes or in ERs/health care - Learning in Temporary Teams pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.12…

Congratulations to Professors Shiri Melumad, Lori Rosenkopf and Hummy Song for being named to Poets&Quants list of Top 50 Undergraduate Professors of 2022: bit.ly/3FokM61

Shift workers face variable schedules that allow companies to achieve operational optimization. However, Wharton's Alon Bergman, Guy David, and Hummy Song, investigated the often uncalculated costs of turnover from these variable schedules. #WorldHealthDay whr.tn/3Khkfpe