In the News
-
October 6, 2021
Laraine Washer, clinical professor of infectious diseases and internal medicine, said, “We do not have enough longitudinal experience with COVID-19 to firmly predict seasonality for the coming year or two.” But she does expect that COVID-19 will eventually evolve into an “endemic seasonal respiratory virus,” meaning it will be a consistently present virus circulating in pockets of global populations.
MLive -
October 6, 2021
“Philanthropy has been a boys club for a long time and we’re at this precipice where that’s starting to shift,” said Megan Tompkins-Stange, assistant professor of public policy, on the recent surge of charitable giving toward gender equality and philanthropic support for women and girls’ organizations.
The New York Times -
October 6, 2021
“It would be a real game-changer for kids, families and teachers, because it would allow us to have the elements in place to build a high-quality system,” said Christina Weiland, associate professor of education, commenting on a proposal by Democrats in Congress to overhaul how the United States finances child care so that, like K-12 education, it’s backed by taxpayers rather than families.
The Detroit News -
October 5, 2021
After a slow summer of COVID-19 cases in Michigan, “the reappearance of more rapid community spread of COVID is pushing the limits yet again,” said Brad Uren, associate professor of emergency medicine. Marisa Louie, assistant professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine, said respiratory viruses are the most common reason for child ER visits currently: “Primary care offices are overwhelmed, and staffing shortages due to the pandemic across the board trickle down to affect kids.”
WDIV/Detroit -
October 5, 2021
“We are in the midst of a demographic revolution. There are more women over 50 than ever before in our society. And millions of them are not really ready or eager to be told to go away and obsess about their grandchildren without participating in and doing other things,” said Susan Douglas, professor of communication and media.
The New York Times -
October 5, 2021
“People listen to people ‘from their group’ and whom they think they can trust. People really don’t know what science is, and so do you feel you can trust the person giving you advice, rather than appraising their expertise, becomes the thing,” said David Dunning, professor of psychology, on how vaccine skeptics view information either as affirmation of what they believe or something to be dismissed because it doesn’t fit their anti-vaccine narrative.
Vox -
October 4, 2021
A state bill that would prohibit insurance providers from declining or limiting an individual’s coverage, or raising their costs, because they are, or choose to become, a living organ donor would be a good first step toward making Michigan a more donor-friendly state, says Alan Leichtman, professor emeritus of internal medicine: “I don’t know if it would shift the numbers (of donors) in a big way but it would be a step in the direction of justice and of a better society.
MLive -
October 4, 2021
“It’s frustrating to those of us who live in a world of facts to see distortions and things like that taking place, which really put people at risk. And that’s the bottom line. People are being put at risk by alternate interpretations of data. We’ve got the facts, we should act on them,” said Arnold Monto, professor of epidemiology, on efforts to convince unvaccinated Americans to get the COVID-19 shot.
WDET Radio -
October 4, 2021
“If what we really care about is solving supply chain problems around the globe and the goods that are coming into the United States and our ability to sell abroad, then we have to be thinking not about just vaccinating Americans, but we have to think about vaccinating the world because we can’t solve supply chain problems when there are people around the globe that are getting sick and dying,” said Betsey Stevenson, professor of public policy and economics.
National Public Radio -
October 1, 2021
“We’re getting to a point where there’s a huge army of people who are about to retire in the United States. We’re going to need a source of labor to provide them services, and to keep the economy running. I think that the perception needs to change about immigrants,” said economist Don Grimes of the Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics, who believes the serious void in the workforce can’t be made up by U.S. citizens alone.
MLive
