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January 5, 2022
Research by Erin Carlton, assistant professor of pediatrics, and colleagues found that two-thirds of young children who had ICU care for a critical illness missed an average of two weeks of school during the six months after discharge: “Missing that much school puts children at risk of worse academic achievements and other poor health outcomes later in life. Their families may also be at increased risk of economic hardship.”
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January 5, 2022
“These fires are different from most of the fires we’ve been seeing across the West, in the sense that they’re grass fires and they’re occurring in the winter. Ultimately, things are going to continue to get worse unless we stop climate change,” said Jonathan Overpeck, dean of the School for Environment and Sustainability, on the recent fires along Colorado’s Front Range.
The Washington Post -
December 20, 2021
As production costs rise, companies pass the costs on to consumers by raising prices or by shrinking the contents of a product to maintain the same price. Even though “shrinkflation can feel sneaky, it’s not unethical,” said Scott Rick, associate professor of marketing. “Just because a box of Cheerios is $4 today, it’s not an eternal commitment to always sell that amount of cereal for that price forever.”
MarketWatch -
December 20, 2021
Stress about the pandemic may be eclipsing holiday joy for many older Americans, says Lindsay Kobayashi, assistant professor of epidemiology: “The clear differences in ability to find joy during these times, and in experiences of stress, based on health status, shows the importance of focusing on those in poor health. But for all older adults, we know that alterations in daily life impact emotional and mental health, so finding safe ways to enjoy favorite activities is important.”
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December 20, 2021
Early in the pandemic, Srijan Sen, professor of psychiatry, saw an unexpected drop in depression among health care workers, which he attributed to them having a sense of community and purpose. But as the pandemic has dragged on, he says, they have become more anguished and fatigued, as they wrestle with “a level of vigilance and concern that maybe was sustainable for two weeks or two months, but not for two years.”
The New York Times -
December 17, 2021
“Governments always think it is in their ability to quickly stop inflation and they never can,” said economist Richard Curtin, director of the Surveys of Consumers, noting that three presidents in the 1960s and ’70s thought they had recipes to bring inflation down: Lyndon B. Johnson imposed a surtax on income, Richard Nixon resorted to wage and price controls, and Jimmy Carter went on TV to ask Americans to consume less.
The New York Times -
December 17, 2021
“The study underscores the importance of the conservation community working early and collaboratively with land planners, energy developers and engineers to eliminate or reduce the impacts of dams on terrestrial species before it is too late,” said Neil Carter, assistant professor of environment and sustainability, on research that shows the destructive impact global expansion of hydroelectric dams has had on the habitats of tigers and jaguars.
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December 17, 2021
Aubree Gordon, associate professor of epidemiology, says vaccinated people have begun to let their guard down after nearly two years of pandemic restrictions: “I think there’s been a bit of an assumption that people are bulletproof, that the vaccine is going to protect them from infection or if they do get infected that they won’t get very sick. We know that’s not 100 percent true.”
National Geographic -
December 16, 2021
“We’ve given this vaccine to more human beings than any other vaccine in history. If there was some smoking gun about toxicity or another issue, we would know it by now,” said James Baker, professor emeritus of internal medicine and biomedical engineering. “These vaccines are remarkably safe and almost unbelievably effective given what we’ve seen. And the real issue is getting everybody vaccinated so they’re protected and they aren’t spreading it to each other.”
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December 16, 2021
“A diplomatic (Olympic) boycott is maybe politically necessary for the Biden administration, given the bad state of the relationship, and also the very anti-China atmosphere in Washington,” said Mary Gallagher, professor of political science and director of the International Institute. “It’s striking, of course, with 1980 in comparison, because both the Trump and the Biden administration use the ‘g-word’ … to label what the Chinese government is doing in Xinjiang. But at the same time, even genocide doesn’t earn a full boycott.”
Vox
