COVID-19
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May 13, 2021
Michigan Medicine offers COVID-19 vaccines to younger patients
Michigan Medicine will schedule COVID-19 vaccine appointments for individuals as young as 12 years old. Appointments are available starting May 14, for patients ages 12-15 with Michigan Medicine medical record numbers.
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May 12, 2021
Study finds vaccine hesitancy rooted in institutional mistrust
Hesitancy by some to get a COVID-19 vaccine is due to longstanding mistrust in technical, health and government institutions, and it challenges efforts to achieve herd immunity, researchers say.
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May 10, 2021
Partnership receives $1.4M for COVID-19 intervention efforts
Michigan CEAL: Communities Conquering COVID has been awarded an additional $1.4 million dollars to support an additional year of community-based COVID-19 interventions.
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May 7, 2021
University updates COVID-19 face-covering, quarantine policies
An updated university face-covering policy, effective immediately, allows individuals to go mask-free while outdoors on all U-M campuses, providing they avoid gatherings of 100 or more.
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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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May 4, 2021
Pandemic worsened many older adults’ mental health and sleep
Nearly one in five older adults say their mental health has gotten worse since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020, and an equal percentage say their sleep has suffered too, a new U-M poll finds.
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April 27, 2021
The COVID-19 health care catastrophe in India and how to help
In his On the Agenda blog, President Mark Schlissel highlights ways the university community is stepping up to help India, a longtime education and research partner, handle an explosion of COVID-19 cases.
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April 27, 2021
How countries on five continents responded to the pandemic
U-M faculty members Scott Greer and Elizabeth King analyzed early government responses from 34 countries to the emerging COVID-19 pandemic and how those decisions impacted their citizens’ health and lives.
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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.
