In the News
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April 6, 2020
Cost savings and public safety benefits of swiftly demolishing dangerous vacant houses in Detroit could outweigh the risk of asbestos exposure to people in neighborhoods, according to research by Rick Neitzel, associate professor of environmental health science, and colleagues.
The Associated Press -
April 3, 2020
“Testing is really our eyes, otherwise we’re kind of blind. The only way you can really understand where the disease is and where you really need to focus your energies with respect to control is to be able to know where the infections are. And the only way to know that is through testing,” said Joseph Eisenberg, professor and chair of epidemiology.
The Associated Press -
April 3, 2020
“If and when we’re going to lift a lot of these (social distancing) restrictions, we’re going to need new tests to drop the number of new (coronavirus) cases close to zero,” said David Hutton, associate professor of health management and policy, and industrial and operations engineering. “There’s a lot of value in testing people in the community to be sure they isolate themselves.”
Quartz -
April 3, 2020
“We are going to see deaths occur after we see a decrease in the number of (coronavirus) cases. Cases may be going down, but because of the long incubation period, and the fact that people are in the hospital for long periods of time, there may be a lag in deaths. So what we need now is more testing so we can get an idea of how much is actually going on in the community,” said Arnold Monto, professor of epidemiology, and of global public health.
CNBC -
April 2, 2020
“All hospitals are challenged. Rural hospitals have huge cash issues. They have very thin if any cash margin, so they don’t have what they need to weather the ups and downs,” said Marianne Udow-Phillips, executive director of the Center for Health and Research Transformation, on the existential threat the coronavirus crisis poses to small, independent and rural hospitals across Michigan.
Bridge Magazine -
April 2, 2020
As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to spike, American health care workers will likely face agonizing decisions on how to ration care — and soon. “Doctors who have dedicated their careers to helping people now have to turn people away. It’s dreadful. It’s really on all of us to pull together so that we don’t force these horrible triage choices,” said Elizabeth Anderson, professor of philosophy.
Vox -
April 2, 2020
“Due to the built environment of prisons and issues of overcrowding, it is extremely difficult to practice recommended social distancing or isolate yourself if you are sick. … Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Ypsilanti — the only women’s prison in the state — houses over 2,200 women but only has capacity for 1,100,” said Nora Krinitsky, director of the U-M Carceral State Project and Prison Creative Arts Project.
Detroit Metro Times -
April 1, 2020
“One thing that jumps out: The system’s inability to move forward when courts shut down. The courts don’t have the technology to hold virtual hearings, case files aren’t available electronically. There’s almost this sense of paralysis,” said Vivek Sankaran, who directs the Law School’s Child Advocacy Law Clinic, on the havoc that the coronavirus has wreaked on the child welfare system.
The New York Times -
April 1, 2020
“They are just being prudently cautious since volatility has shot up and the range of possibilities is much wider now than two months ago. It makes perfect sense to hold off at this time,” said Nejat Seyhun, professor of finance, on the fact that some chief Wall Street strategists have suspended their year-end targets on the S&P 500 due to the unprecedented economic uncertainty caused by the coronavirus.
CNBC -
April 1, 2020
“I think it’s super important to collect information around race when it comes to COVID-19. But given the history of the United States, it’s easy to see how the data around race could lead to more stigmatizing and damaging effects down the line,” said Melissa Creary, assistant professor of health management and policy, regarding the release of demographic data on Detroiters and Michiganders who have the coronavirus.
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