In the News
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May 10, 2022
Statewide wastewater surveillance will help health officials in Michigan navigate the endemic phase of COVID-19, when many people may not be tested because their symptoms are mild, says Marisa Eisenberg, professor of epidemiology, complex systems and mathematics: “Eventually if testing starts to shift toward at-home testing, we won’t have as good information. We are now tracking the virus by hospitalizations, (and) those are lagging indicators.”
The Detroit News -
May 10, 2022
Business executives have aggressively picked up the pace of selling their own company shares — a worrisome sign that they have little confidence the stock market will return to all-time highs any time soon, says Nejat Seyhun, professor of finance. A “steep deterioration of insider sentiment … likely portends additional price declines in insiders’ view,” he said.
MarketWatch -
May 10, 2022
“The big question is, ‘Will people feel like this is a benefit they can use?’” said Anna Kirkland, director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, on the protection guaranteed by federal law to employees who disclose that they are thinking about or deciding to have an abortion — a deeply personal and often-stigmatized health situation.
The Verge -
May 9, 2022
The risk of air transmission from SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19, is 1,000 times higher than surface transmission, according to research by Chuanwu Xi and Rick Neitzel, both professors of environmental health sciences. “This is another layer of sophistication to evaluate major routes of transmission and to identify physical spaces where risks are higher,” Neitzel said.
DBusiness Magazine -
May 9, 2022
“The premature demand that menthol be banned in all tobacco products, if implemented, risks handing almost the entire tobacco marketplace over to cigarettes, which kill half of long-term users,” wrote Cliff Douglas, director of the U-M Tobacco Research Network. “Science has demonstrated that a variety of noncombustible products offer reduced-risk alternatives for adult smokers who are either unable or unwilling to quit using nicotine completely.”
MedPage Today -
May 9, 2022
“What the Fed is hoping to do is cool inflation a little so your paycheck will go a little further, although that will mean slowing the economy and that might mean a little less bargaining power for workers and fewer prospects of a wage rise anytime soon,” said Justin Wolfers, professor of economics and public policy, on the Federal Reserve’s recent half-percentage interest rate hike.
CNN -
May 6, 2022
“We’ve had enough research now to say pretty conclusively, it’s going to be economically harmful,” said Sarah Miller, assistant professor of business economics and public policy, whose research shows that women unable to get an abortion experience a significant increase in financial distress. “And we can think about if someone has a worse economic situation and now they have a child, that child is also going to experience that worse economic situation as well,” said Joelle Abramowitz, assistant research scientist at the Institute for Social Research.
MLive -
May 6, 2022
“We’re going to have this bizarre scenario in the state of Michigan where abortion might be available on a county-by-county basis,” said Barbara McQuade, professor of practice from law, who believes that enforcement across the state could differ depending on location, as some prosecutors will refuse to bring charges under the law and others will be “only too eager” to pursue those cases.
The Detroit News -
May 6, 2022
“Left to his own devices, Justice Alito would happily welcome challenges to many of the (Supreme) Court’s foundational fundamental rights decisions,” said Leah Litman, assistant professor of law. “The critiques he levels at Roe — it’s not in the constitutional text; there aren’t early state constitutional provisions or early state or federal court decisions recognizing the right — apply to those other rights, and he’d happily overrule them if he could.”
CNN -
May 5, 2022
“There needs to be a big multi-stakeholder discussion that leads to some kind of a framework for going forward that allows a lot more flexibility. It also gives the dealers real hope of being able to be participants going forward,” said Daniel Crane, professor of law, who believes adapting to change and incorporating it will be the best way for auto dealers to compete with online startup automakers.
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