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October 1, 2021
Christine Brent, assistant professor of emergency medicine and director of U-M’s EMS Fellowship Program, says many paramedics in Michigan have left the profession amid the pandemic, resulting in a critical shortage of first responders: “Unless we do something to address this shortage, it’s going to come to a point that when we call 911, no one is coming, or no one is coming for an hour.”
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October 1, 2021
“In the past they’ve tried to squash cockroaches, but there are always more. You can spend all day stomping your feet and you won’t get anywhere. Going after networks is a smart try,” said Cliff Lampe, professor of information, on the recent crackdown by Facebook to remove a German network of accounts it said had spread COVID-19 misinformation and encouraged violent responses to COVID restrictions.
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September 30, 2021
Adding labels with graphic health warnings to cigarette packs might have averted thousands of smoking-related deaths in the United States, says Rafael Meza, professor of epidemiology: “The evidence is out there from multiple countries that suggests these graphic health warnings do work as intended. If we had been able to implement this regulation (as intended) back in 2012, many more lives could have been saved.”
UPI -
September 30, 2021
“It’s incredibly underwhelming what they came up with. There are real election issues. But that’s not addressed with the level of sophistication they were applying in this audit,” said J. Alex Halderman, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, who believes the contractors’ main goal in the Arizona election audit was to raise questions “for people to hang onto, for people to remain skeptical,” not identifying vulnerabilities in the system.
USA Today -
September 30, 2021
“My hope is that people who are fully vaccinated should really feel like this risk is manageable,” said Preeti Malani, U-M’s chief health officer and professor of internal medicine. “What I am seeing in the hospital and what other hospitals are seeing in this area are some breakthrough cases, but they tend to be overwhelmingly in people who have underlying health conditions.”
National Public Radio -
September 29, 2021
Jennifer Erb-Downward, senior research associate at U-M’s Poverty Solutions, says 16 percent of Detroit families with children were homeless in the year before the pandemic, but city schools identified only 2 percent: “If you are not identifying children who are experiencing housing instability and homelessness, you’re fundamentally denying them their right to an education, because children who are experiencing homelessness have specific educational rights that go above and beyond what you would usually see.”
WDET Radio -
September 29, 2021
“What matters? Is it a career? Flexible time? Time with family? There’s a lot of discussion and thinking going on ‘What makes for a good life?’ And that, I don’t think, has landed on ‘Just be productive,’” said Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks, professor of management and organizations, on how the pandemic may have redefined what it means to be productive, especially in light of the blurring of work-life boundaries.
The New York Times -
September 29, 2021
“We’re not turning them into vegans. We’re just saying, hey, eat something that is an average (carbon) footprint,” said Marty Heller, senior researcher at the Center for Sustainable Systems, whose research shows that 56 percent of the carbon footprint in all U.S. diets comes from meat, especially beef.
ABC News -
September 28, 2021
Research by Phillip Vlisides, assistant professor of anesthesiology, and colleagues found that COVID-19 patients who require intensive care are more likely to have delirium and other neurological symptoms. “This … highlights another reason why getting vaccinated and preventing severe illness is so important. There can be long-term neurological complications that perhaps we don’t talk about as much as we should.”
The Daily Mail (U.K.) -
September 28, 2021
Charles H.F. Davis III, assistant professor of education, says a new ACLU model policy for “racially just policing” on college campuses “misunderstands and misrepresents the problem” because such departments were, at their founding, rooted in racial inequity. “The fundamental premise of the document itself has to be challenged,” he said.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
