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December 7, 2020
Physicians report that a large number of COVID-19 patients experience delirium, disproportionately affecting older adults. “It’s going to be, I think, a little bit frightening and a little bit enlightening, both about how illness affects dementia risk, but also what other lifestyle and genetic protective factors can influence risk as well,” said Natalie Tronson, associate professor of psychology.
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December 7, 2020
Use of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco among U.S. teens has declined by nearly one-fifth annually over the past decade, according to research by Rafael Meza, associate professor of epidemiology and global public health: “This is despite the fact that e-cigarettes are becoming increasingly popular among youth.”
UPI -
December 4, 2020
“We need to decide as a society if we want to eliminate COVID-19, or is it going to be something that’s endemic and at low levels in the background, and we accept that, just like there are periodic outbreaks of measles throughout the world and in the United States,” said Abram Wagner, research assistant professor of epidemiology.
Michigan Advance -
December 4, 2020
Richard Norton, professor of urban and regional planning, and in the Program in the Environment, believes an elevation-based definition of a high water mark for the Great Lakes makes little sense given natural shoreline dynamics and beaches that reconfigure significantly over time as lake levels rise and fall: “Especially on an eroding shoreline where we know that things being built today landward of the ordinary high water mark will eventually end up in the water.”
MLive -
December 4, 2020
“The United States’ transmission and distribution system is probably the largest machine in the world. And we are basically all tied to it, and microgrids allow pockets of communities to not necessarily completely disengage, but to have more autonomy over how they’re engaging with that machine,” said Jose Alfaro, clinical assistant professor of environment and sustainability, on the increasing use of decentralized power generation — often with solar as its source — to adapt to climate change.
Marketplace -
December 3, 2020
“Without more aid from the federal government, we’re going to be in serious trouble here in Michigan,” said Gabriel Ehrlich, director of the Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics. “We would expect school systems, health care systems and local governments to be forced into furloughs (of employees) and likely layoffs if we don’t see more federal aid. That means teachers, police officers, firefighters and nurses are going to be at risk of losing their jobs.”
Bridge Magazine -
December 3, 2020
“It’s not to say everybody should get telehealth, or everybody should get in-person (treatment). It was just that, before (COVID-19), everybody was in person because that was the only option available,” said Lewei (Allison) Lin, assistant professor of psychiatry, whose research shows a dearth of analysis on the role of telemedicine in addiction treatment, including whether it improves access and can be done without significantly increasing diversion.
Vox -
December 3, 2020
“Our findings point to a strong need to communicate effectively and transparently about how well the vaccines work, the safeguards built in to protect the safety of recipients, and the public health importance of widespread vaccination starting with priority groups,” said Preeti Malani, U-M’s chief health officer, professor of internal medicine and director of a national poll that found that 46 percent of Americans ages 50 to 80 would rather wait for others to get vaccinated for COVID-19 first.
MarketWatch -
December 2, 2020
“As we visually document and archive COVID-19, we need to remember how images can unfairly assign blame and unwittingly repeat tropes that reach back to long histories of exclusion,” wrote Pamela Ballinger, professor of history. “We have already witnessed how the semantics of naming the pandemic invoke deep-rooted histories of discrimination against Asians and Asian Americans.”
The Washington Post -
December 2, 2020
“There’s this misconception that if tribes could do fracking and burn coal and there were no limits or regulation or anything, that they would just do it, that that’s the economy we’ve always wanted. And that’s just not true,” said Kyle Whyte, professor of environment and sustainability and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, on efforts by fossil fuel proponents to cast themselves as allies of communities of color and defenders of their financial well-being.
Los Angeles Times
