COVID-19 vaccine
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May 7, 2021
Unit leaders will determine gradual employee return-to-campus plans
Faculty and staff who have been working remotely through the COVID-19 pandemic will begin a gradual return to more on-site work in coming months at the direction of their unit’s leaders.
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May 5, 2021
COVID-19: Understanding herd immunity, vaccine hesitancy
Even with more than 100 million Americans receiving at least one COVID-19 vaccination, achieving the goal of herd immunity is not a certainty. Messaging and accessibility will be critical to addressing hesitancy.
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April 23, 2021
COVID-19 vaccine to be required for students who live on campus
Students who choose to live on the Ann Arbor campus during the fall term will be required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19. All U-M students, faculty and staff are strongly encouraged to get vaccinated.
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April 20, 2021
Michigan Medicine hits vaccine milestone, offers more appointments
Michigan Medicine has invited all U-M staff, students and faculty who have filled out the BlueQueue questionnaire, and who are not yet vaccinated against COVID-19, to make a vaccination appointment.
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April 19, 2021
Senate Assembly resolution urges mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations
The U-M faculty’s Senate Assembly has approved a resolution that supports mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for all students, faculty and staff, with limited legally mandated exceptions.
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April 16, 2021
U-M encouraging students to share COVID-19 vaccination records
The university is urging students on all three of its campuses to submit their COVID-19 vaccination information. At this time, U-M is not collecting information regarding employee vaccination status.
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April 13, 2021
U-M alters COVID-19 clinics amid concerns over J&J vaccine
U-M has switched some of its COVID-19 vaccination clinics to the Pfizer vaccine and canceled several others after concerns arose over possible side effects from the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen vaccine.
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April 7, 2021
U-M offering COVID-19 vaccine to students at upcoming clinics
U-M is providing opportunities for up to 7,500 students to receive the single-dose Johnson & Johnson/Janssen COVID-19 vaccine at one of several clinics planned over the next two weeks.
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March 26, 2021
Update on Michigan Medicine’s COVID-19 vaccination program
A Q&A with Dana Habers, co-lead of Michigan Medicine’s COVID-19 Vaccine & Therapeutics Task Force, provides an update on various aspects U-M’s vaccine rollout.
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March 1, 2021
U-M experts discuss common vaccine terms and descriptions
Throughout the pandemic, we’ve been bombarded with terms like vaccine schedule, variants, mRNA, and more. Two U-M faculty members define basic vaccine terms, and how these relate to the COVID-19 virus and vaccines.