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January 25, 2022
Seniors who need help with daily care and activities are more than twice as likely to get that help from their own biological children as opposed to stepchildren, according to Sarah Patterson, research investigator at the Institute for Social Research: “We know that older adults today are much more likely to be in stepfamilies than they were in previous generations.”
NewsNation -
January 25, 2022
“Were you sloppy, lazy or overoptimistic about your prospects? If you were, that may be bad business, but it doesn’t necessarily rise to fraud,” said Will Thomas, assistant professor of business law, commenting on a potential lawsuit against former President Trump alleging fraud for regularly fudging the value of assets on financial statements given to banks, insurers and tax authorities.
The Associated Press -
January 25, 2022
“That negative PCR from a specimen that was taken three days before travel may not be any better than a rapid on the day of travel,” said Emily Somers, professor of environmental health sciences and rheumatology, on the requirement by some countries that travelers show proof of a negative PCR test for COVID-19, rather than a rapid antigen test, before entering.
CNN -
January 24, 2022
Although wireless carriers will limit 5G service near airports, airlines are still pushing back, maintaining 5G could interfere with aviation equipment. Ella Atkins, professor of aerospace engineering, says airlines might sue if they think 5G causes flight disruptions: “Every time you cause a plane to not fly because of something like an interference problem or you cause it to divert to an alternate airport, that’s really expensive.”
Marketplace -
January 24, 2022
“The safer states have implemented a bundle of policies that are oriented toward controlling the motor vehicle, while the dangerous states are more oriented toward accommodating it,” Jonathan Levine, professor of urban and regional planning. “The difference between the two suggests that policies that encourage driving make the transportation system more dangerous simply by exposing people to more travel.”
Midland Daily News -
January 24, 2022
Ivermectin prescriptions can cost private and Medicare insurance plans some $2.5 million a week, say Kao-Ping Chua, assistant professor of pediatrics and health management and policy, and Nora Becker, assistant professor of internal medicine. “The true amount of waste may be higher because we didn’t consider Medicaid spending. Also, by reducing barriers to an ineffective drug that some use as a substitute for COVID-19 vaccination, insurers may raise their spending on COVID-19 complications,” Chua said.
Forbes -
January 21, 2022
“Public health experts maintain that after the epidemiological curve plummets from hundreds (or more) cases and deaths per day per 100,000 people to fewer than five cases and deaths per day, for many successive days, officials will have a pretty good chance of declaring that COVID is no longer a pandemic. But as omicron continues to swell, we’re not even close to that,” wrote Howard Markel, professor and director of the Center for the History of Medicine.
WIRED -
January 21, 2022
While experts predict the omicron wave will fall almost as quickly as it rose, just how fast cases fall will depend on how much a community abides by public health measures after that. “It depends on how high the peak is. And on whether or not when people see the case count numbers coming down, if they kind of loosen things up,” said Aubree Gordon, associate professor of epidemiology.
CNBC -
January 21, 2022
“What is really difficult about COVID is that, often, you are the most contagious before you have symptoms. So, that is part of the reason that we’re seeing so much spread of the infection right now,” said Payal Patel, assistant professor of infectious diseases. “Now, at the end of when … you have had symptoms for five or 10 days, you have gotten better, the tests are not going to help you know if you’re contagious anymore.”
PBS NewsHour -
January 20, 2022
“You have kind of a half a loaf,” said Barry Rabe, professor of public policy and the environment, referring to those states that comprise the U.S. Climate Alliance. “A good many of those climate alliance states are ones that don’t produce fossil fuels and many don’t have large industrial sectors. It doesn’t mean that their emissions are trivial, but some of the real, real challenges are in the states that are least likely to sign up for that agreement.”
U.S. News & World Report
