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April 27, 2021
“As kids return to playing sports, it’s critical that teams and facilities enforce COVID guidelines to keep players, coaches and families as safe as possible and to reduce community spread,” said Sarah Clark, associate director of the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health.
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April 26, 2021
“They have re-reviewed claims and then they send out these bills. They say, ‘Hey, just kidding! We don’t think you were entitled to the money we already paid you,’” said Rachael Kohl, director of the Workers’ Rights Clinic at the Law School, who has had calls from hundreds of people who were ordered to pay back their jobless benefits because Michigan’s unemployment agency changed eligibility criteria.
MLive -
April 26, 2021
The Netherlands — where dams and storm surge barriers are adaptable — holds lessons for the U.S., says Jeremy Bricker, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering: “Building infrastructure today that will be strong enough to manage the extreme scenarios the nation might see a century from now can be expensive. But what if infrastructure were instead designed to meet shorter-term needs and also be easily adapted later for the future climate?”
GreenBiz -
April 26, 2021
“I would consider yourself still at risk if you’re … still unvaccinated. Those are the populations in each state that are really making up the majority of cases that are coming into the hospital and getting really, really sick,” said Payal Patel, assistant professor of internal medicine and infectious diseases. “It’s really up to us. It’s up to how many people will get vaccinated and how quickly that rollout can happen.”
CBS News -
April 23, 2021
“If nothing else, the pandemic has proven the importance of education and research,” said U-M President Mark Schlissel. “Imagine if this were 50 or 60 years ago. We would not have known what the virus was, we wouldn’t have sequenced its genome, we wouldn’t have a diagnostic test, and we certainly wouldn’t have a vaccine in less than a year. So, this mission of the university is critical.”
Michigan Radio -
April 23, 2021
“For me, justice is about the preservation of Black life, not efforts of accountability after it’s been taken. I don’t want it to be confused that indictment is justice, that a verdict is justice. Justice is about George Floyd still being here,” said Charles H.F. Davis III, assistant professor of education.
Inside Higher Ed -
April 23, 2021
“There have been countless examples, and so many police officers who’ve been able to walk away without being held accountable. …We’re all relieved and justice has been served in some sense, but it’s one case and there’s still work to do, a lot of work,” said Enrique Neblett, professor of health behavior and health education, following the conviction of Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd.
Bridge Magazine -
April 22, 2021
Comments by John Monnier, professor of astronomy, were featured in a story about how astronomers are turning to quantum physicists for help to start connecting optical telescopes that are tens, even hundreds, of kilometers away from one another. Astronomers hope to use innovations from the subatomic world to construct breathtakingly large arrays of optical observatories.
Scientific American -
April 22, 2021
“If (the economy) can produce the continued surge in jobs and surge in wages, I think we’ll see a boom in spending that lasts longer than we initially expected,” said economist Richard Curtin, director of the U-M Surveys of Consumers, which shows that consumers are optimistic about the jobs outlook and expect unemployment to keep falling.
Bloomberg -
April 22, 2021
“Workplaces and businesses will likely treat people who have not been vaccinated, and people who decline to reveal whether they have been vaccinated, in the same way — telling them that they can’t engage in certain activities,” said Kayte Spector-Bagdady, associate director of the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine. “You can always decline to reveal that you’ve been vaccinated, but it could come at a high cost such as not being able to go to the doctor’s office, work in person or travel.”
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