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December 3, 2020
“It’s not to say everybody should get telehealth, or everybody should get in-person (treatment). It was just that, before (COVID-19), everybody was in person because that was the only option available,” said Lewei (Allison) Lin, assistant professor of psychiatry, whose research shows a dearth of analysis on the role of telemedicine in addiction treatment, including whether it improves access and can be done without significantly increasing diversion.
Vox -
December 3, 2020
“Our findings point to a strong need to communicate effectively and transparently about how well the vaccines work, the safeguards built in to protect the safety of recipients, and the public health importance of widespread vaccination starting with priority groups,” said Preeti Malani, U-M’s chief health officer, professor of internal medicine and director of a national poll that found that 46 percent of Americans ages 50 to 80 would rather wait for others to get vaccinated for COVID-19 first.
MarketWatch -
December 2, 2020
“As we visually document and archive COVID-19, we need to remember how images can unfairly assign blame and unwittingly repeat tropes that reach back to long histories of exclusion,” wrote Pamela Ballinger, professor of history. “We have already witnessed how the semantics of naming the pandemic invoke deep-rooted histories of discrimination against Asians and Asian Americans.”
The Washington Post -
December 2, 2020
“There’s this misconception that if tribes could do fracking and burn coal and there were no limits or regulation or anything, that they would just do it, that that’s the economy we’ve always wanted. And that’s just not true,” said Kyle Whyte, professor of environment and sustainability and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, on efforts by fossil fuel proponents to cast themselves as allies of communities of color and defenders of their financial well-being.
Los Angeles Times -
December 2, 2020
“This summer was different than any other than I’ve seen before. Colleagues I know and respect, this was maybe the first time I’ve heard them talk about systemic racism,” said Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, one of the lead organizers and writers of a manifesto that describes Black scholars’ personal experience of “the structural and institutional racism and bias that is integrated into society, professional networks, expert communities and industries.”
The New York Times -
November 24, 2020
The number of women with suicidal thoughts after giving birth has dramatically increased since 2006, with the biggest spikes among mothers who are Black, lower income or younger, according to research by Lindsay Admon, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, and Kara Zivin, professor of psychiatry, and health management and policy, and colleagues. “This is more important than ever in the COVID-19 era. The postpartum isolation people feel will have been compounded by this epidemic,” Admon said.
USA Today -
November 24, 2020
“It’s interesting to think about how this would potentially impact the survival of these caterpillars, when they’re crowded onto plants. The amount of milkweed is decreasing. This may become a bigger issue,” said D. André Green, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, commenting on research that found that before metamorphosis, monarch butterflies will aggressively head butt each other for access to their favorite food.
The New York Times -
November 24, 2020
Research by Daphna Stroumsa, clinical lecturer in obstetrics and gynecology, and colleagues found that close to 1 in 10 of the estimated 1.4 million transgender adults in the U.S. are likely using hormones that weren’t prescribed because they’re uninsured or their insurance won’t cover it: “Health care systems and physicians and health care providers have so often failed trans people, either with direct discrimination or ignorance of trans people’s health care needs. We need to fix that.”
CNN -
November 23, 2020
“Higher education … costs more for students in the U.S. versus many of our peer countries. I think that we would need to have a long national conversation about college costs first,” Hoyt Bleakley, professor of economics. “If the result of that dialogue were to be that college should be more heavily subsidized for current and future students, then perhaps we could talk about the unfairness to all the people who already paid the old, high prices. Talking about student debt first puts the cart before the horse.”
Newsweek -
November 23, 2020
“Many people with mental illness, ranging from mild depression to alcohol dependence, to serious illnesses such as schizophrenia, smoke more when they’re stressed, and smoke more when they’re getting more sick,” said Laura Hirshbein, professor of psychiatry, on the pandemic-fueled rise in smoking — a long-time central coping mechanism for people with mental illness or in stressful situations.
Reuters
