COVID-19

  1. March 25, 2024

    Campus briefs

    Short news items from around the University of Michigan.

  2. March 20, 2024

    Germ aversion affected 2020 election voting behavior

    Voters opted to pick candidates in 2020 by mail-in ballots, avoiding poll sites due to COVID-19 concerns rather than because of political party efforts to promote specific voting methods.

  3. March 11, 2024

    Americans’ trust in science survived polarization, Trump attacks

    Americans’ basic confidence in science and scientific expertise was unshaken by the Trump administration’s attacks on scientific expertise, and has remained high during the last six decades.

  4. February 21, 2024

    U-M study looks at racial disparities in schools during COVID

    A U-M study noted racial disparities in school enrollment during the COVID-19 pandemic, consistent with the fact that communities of color faced greater risks from COVID-19.

  5. February 19, 2024

    Campus briefs

    Short news items from around the University of Michigan.

  6. February 5, 2024

    Q&A: Which COVID-19 shots are most protective against severe disease?

    A group of U-M researchers sought to understand the various designs and methods that were used to study effectiveness of the vaccine doses following the primary series vaccination.

  7. January 29, 2024

    More Americans support government assistance for elder care

    A study by U-M researcher Sarah Patterson found that by 2022, more Americans felt government agencies should be providing help in caring for older adults.

  8. January 29, 2024

    Michigan Medicine service aims to combat health care disparities

    In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic shining light on health care disparities across the country, Michigan Medicine has established the Healthcare Equity Consult Service.

  9. December 14, 2023

    Genetic depression ‘protection’ no match for pandemic stress

    Living through a historic pandemic while handling the stress of the first year of college sent one-third of students in a new U-M study into clinical depression.

  10. December 12, 2023

    Twelve tips for staying healthy through the holidays

    As the holiday season gears up and cases of flu, COVID-19 and RSV have started to rise, three U-M Health doctors suggest ways to avoid winter illnesses.