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April 7, 2020
“That’s huge. By any measure this is a massive change in behavior, and if we can make a similar reduction in the number of contacts we make, every indication is that we can defeat this epidemic,” said Aaron King, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, commenting on data that suggests that Americans in wide swaths of the West, Northeast and Midwest have complied with orders from state and local officials to stay home.
The New York Times -
April 7, 2020
“Everybody is going to struggle in different ways, but kids are vulnerable and voiceless. Kids are going to suffer from this, too,” said Shawna Lee, associate professor of social work, whose research shows that the stress and uncertainty caused by the coronavirus is taking its toll on parents — and children are feeling the psychological and physical brunt of it.
U.S. News & World Report -
April 6, 2020
West African lions divide their time evenly between the region’s largest national parks — where they are protected and face fewer human pressures — and the hunting preserves that surround them, according to a camera survey by doctoral student Kirby Mills and assistant professor Nyeema Harris, both of ecology and evolutionary biology. “We were surprised by the lions’ lack of spatial response to humans because they have shown avoidance behaviors in other systems.”
UPI -
April 6, 2020
“Crises are fundamentally presidential moments, and given that, Biden just doesn’t have the capacity to truly break in,” said Josh Pasek, associate professor of communication and media, and political science, on the physical and political isolation of Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden as Donald Trump commands Americans’ attention with his coronavirus response.
International Business Times (U.K.) -
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
