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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.
Michigan Radio -
March 31, 2020
“The hope is that we will get through this unusual circumstance and move forward. Employers don’t want to have to start from scratch in terms of building relationships with students,” said Kerin Borland, director of the University Career Center, who noted that recruiters have continued to interview students over video chat and that an in-person job fair at U-M was turned into a digital format.
The New York Times -
March 31, 2020
“There’s a lot of surveillance that goes on for influenza every year, and so if we were seeing a lot of coronavirus activity at that time — even if you couldn’t test for it — you would see signals in that influenza surveillance,” said Josh Petrie, assistant research professor of epidemiology, on the claims by some Americans that they may have had coronavirus last November and December.
USA Today -
March 31, 2020
Research from Ben Safdi, assistant professor of physics, and colleagues appears to rule out dark matter as producing an unidentified astronomical X-ray emission line. “If this 3.5 keV line was coming from dark matter, since there is dark matter in our own galaxy, we should have seen it.”
Gizmodo -
March 30, 2020
“These kinds of disasters exacerbate existing inequities. In other words, the people who were already worse off are likely to get even worse off,” said Susan Dorr Goold, a professor of internal medicine, and health management and policy, in a story about the impact of the coronavirus on residents in rural northern Michigan, many of whom are elderly and have low incomes and poor health.
Bridge Magazine -
March 30, 2020
“What we’re seeing is some systematic increases in temperature over the long run, putting you closer to freeze-thaw cycle of water. And you’re seeing winters getting warmer, shorter — so you just don’t have the amount of time you used to for thermodynamics to do their thing,” said Richard Rood, professor of climate and space sciences and engineering, commenting on this winter’s relative lack of ice coverage on the Great Lakes.
National Geographic -
March 30, 2020
“There will be plenty of food for everyone who needs it. There really is. There’s no need to panic or hoard,” said Shelie Miller, associate professor of environment and sustainability, and civil and environmental engineering, and director of the Program in Environment. She said, however, “Some of the increased volume is due to people actually needing more food at home to accommodate for changes in lifestyle.”
The Detroit News
