COVID-19
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September 7, 2020
GEO votes to strike; U-M says it violates contract, state law
The Graduate Employees’ Organization, representing about 2,000 U-M graduate student instructors and graduate student staff assistants, has voted to go on strike. U-M says the action violates GEO’s contract and state law.
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September 4, 2020
Contact Tracing Corps to help monitor virus on campus
Student volunteer investigators will have a key role in U-M’s COVID-19 response as contact tracers, reaching out to people on the Ann Arbor campus who had close contact with students testing positive for the coronavirus.
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September 3, 2020
President Schlissel announces weekly COVID-19 updates
With the fall semester underway, President Mark Schlissel has begun what will be weekly update messages to the university community regarding the COVID-19 situation at U-M.
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September 3, 2020
University to test 3,000 weekly for COVID-19 on campus
U-M will begin surveillance testing students, faculty and staff for the virus that causes COVID-19 next week, ramping up to 3,000 weekly on the Ann Arbor campus by the end of September.
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September 2, 2020
Early COVID-19 news coverage amplified political divide
U-M research shows both newspaper and network news COVID-19 stories were polarized in early coverage of the pandemic from March to May 2020, which may have shaped pandemic attitudes.
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September 1, 2020
U-M to conduct clinical trial to test COVID-19 vaccine
Michigan Medicine is partnering with the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca for a Phase III clinical trial to test a vaccine against COVID-19, looking at how well the investigational vaccine works and how safe it is.
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August 31, 2020
Too many COVID-19 patients get unneeded ‘just in case’ antibiotics
More than half of patients hospitalized with suspected COVID-19 in Michigan during the state’s peak months received antibiotics early in their stay, a new study involving U-M researchers shows.
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August 31, 2020
Researchers check campus environment for virus, potential for COVID risks
School of Public Health researchers are trying to determine how much coronavirus is present in the environment on campus, and whether that has any relationship to infection rates within the university community.
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August 31, 2020
Library offering onsite services for fall semester
The U-M Library is lending books and other items using contactless pickup service. It has also launched a system that allows students to reserve up to two hours of individual library study space.
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August 31, 2020
Campus briefs
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