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November 22, 2021
While 98 percent of the U-M student body is vaccinated against COVID-19, only about a third has had the flu shot. “There’s vaccine fatigue, and they think that the COVID vaccine protects against the flu virus, which it doesn’t. So, I think there’s a lot of work that we can do to keep our campus educated,” said Lindsey Mortenson, medical director of the University Health Service.
CBS News -
November 22, 2021
“Saule (Omarova) is widely regarded as one of the top financial regulatory scholars in the world. Whether you agree with her, or disagree with her, you can’t have a complete debate about current topics in U.S. banking law and U.S. financial regulation without taking into account what Saule has written on the topic,” said Jeremy Kress, assistant professor of business law, commenting on President Biden’s nominee to head the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which is responsible for regulating the assets held by more than 1,000 banks.
National Public Radio -
November 22, 2021
When governments focus on audits, taxpayers tend to fall in line to avoid tangling with the taxman, says Joel Slemrod, professor of economics and faculty director of the Office of Tax Policy Research: “The preponderance of the evidence suggests the deterrence effect of enforcement on evasion is clear and, in many cases, substantial. … Surprisingly, just getting a letter from a tax agency improves compliance. That’s what I call the ‘you’re-on-our-radar’ effect.”
MarketWatch -
November 19, 2021
“Consumers, flush with money they did not spend last year, want to splurge. This is the classical bullwhip effect that ceases to stabilize as the supply chain is being subjected to multiple shocks,” said Ravi Anupindi, professor of operations research and management. Demand has been faster than anticipated, he says, as many countries recover.
Detroit Free Press -
November 19, 2021
“It’s a weird spike. It’s not very spikey; it’s much more gradual. Usually, you have kind of an exponential rise and then an exponential fall. This one’s been kind of linear. It’s been slowly climbing,” said Marisa Eisenberg, associate professor of epidemiology, complex systems and mathematics, on Michigan’s current COVID-19 surge.
WDET Radio -
November 19, 2021
“We must divorce ourselves and our economies from fossil fuels as quickly as possible, and for reasons that go beyond the climate chaos and deadly air pollution that fossil fuels cause. … The countries that move the fastest will be the true leaders of the rapidly expanding clean energy economy of the 21st century,” wrote Jonathan Overpeck, professor and dean of the School for Environment and Sustainability.
The Hill -
November 18, 2021
“The federal (infrastructure) funding is probably a once-in-a-lifetime lifeline, and it certainly is going to move the needle. But Michiganders need to understand that we have a long-term challenge. This federal money will last for a while, it will improve infrastructure in a number of ways, but when it’s done, we’re still facing a shortfall of our own making,” said Tom Ivacko, executive director of the Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy.
The Detroit News -
November 18, 2021
Brian C. Weeks, assistant professor of environment and sustainability, says a recent study on birds in the Amazon and his own research on migratory birds reinforce the idea that birds may be changing shape due to a warming climate — changes that should concern us all: “All around the world, people depend on natural systems. Intact natural systems provide more economic benefits to humanity than the entirety of the world’s GDP, so they matter to you whether or not you know it.”
National Public Radio -
November 18, 2021
“I don’t think people realize that when you contract COVID, even if you are asymptomatic … you’re generating millions of viral particles that are sitting in your respiratory tract that you can then pass on to other people,” said Meilan Han, professor of internal medicine in pulmonary and critical care. “The other general misconception that frustrates the heck out of me is that the general public thinks, ‘If I’m not old and I don’t have a chronic condition, I’ll be OK.'”
Salon -
November 17, 2021
A reversal of Roe v. Wade would require Michiganders seeking abortions to travel further to legally obtain them — about 260 miles compared to the current 13 miles. “We would definitely expect to see the largest impacts on low-income individuals. Someone who is low income may not be able to take time off work to do that, they might not have the income to do that,” said Joelle Abramowitz, assistant research scientist at the Institute for Social Research.
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