Practical tips for COVID-19 hospital and post-hospital care available for anyone to use, and for any hospital or health system to adapt and publish ANN ARBOR—No one likes to venture into a new city or country without a map or guidebook. But that’s what having COVID-19 has felt like to people with the disease—and to… Continue reading U-M publishes free guides packed with advice and wisdom from COVID-19 patients, caregivers
News Tag: COVID-19
Federal pandemic assistance set to expire at end of 2020: U-M experts available
ANN ARBOR—Congress has not taken action to extend or replace the federal unemployment pandemic assistance, which expires at year’s end. The University of Michigan has experts available to discuss how the inaction could devastate millions of households, especially those living in poverty. H. Luke Shaefer is the director of Poverty Solutions, the Hermann and Amalie… Continue reading Federal pandemic assistance set to expire at end of 2020: U-M experts available
Majority of Detroiters say they’re unlikely to get COVID-19 vaccine, U-M survey says
DETROIT—Sixty-one percent of Detroiters say they are unlikely or very unlikely to get a government-approved COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available, according to the latest survey from the University of Michigan’s Detroit Metro Area Communities Study. The latest wave of the representative survey of Detroit residents was open Oct. 14-28. This is the fifth rapid-response… Continue reading Majority of Detroiters say they’re unlikely to get COVID-19 vaccine, U-M survey says
ISR Insights Speaker Series: Research Universities and the Public Good in the Time of COVID-19
ANN ARBOR – ISR Insights Speaker Series is a series focusing on the research happening at ISR. Jason Owen-Smith (Executive Director, Institute for Research on Innovation & Science (IRIS); Executive Director, Research Analytics; Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan; Research Professor, Institute for Social Research) Wednesday, December 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6S3We5UDx4 America’s most research intensive universities represent… Continue reading ISR Insights Speaker Series: Research Universities and the Public Good in the Time of COVID-19
U-M experts available to discuss global impact from Trump testing positive for COVID-19
ANN ARBOR—The University of Michigan has experts available to discuss the announcement that President Donald Trump tested positive for COVID-19. Howard Markel, the George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine at the Medical School and director of its Center for the History of Medicine, has studied epidemics over history and the effectiveness… Continue reading U-M experts available to discuss global impact from Trump testing positive for COVID-19
Parents get ‘incomplete’ grade on pandemic homeschooling
ANN ARBOR—The pandemic homeschooling report card for many parents isn’t good. As schools nationwide suspended in-person education, many parents felt overwhelmed and stressed about teaching their child at home, according to a new University of Michigan report. The COVID-19 pandemic presented parents with new challenges on how best to prepare and support their children for… Continue reading Parents get ‘incomplete’ grade on pandemic homeschooling
Early COVID-19 news coverage amplified political divide
ANN ARBOR—Newspaper coverage of COVID-19 is at least as politicized and polarized as climate change coverage, say University of Michigan researchers. Both newspaper and network news COVID-19 stories were polarized in early coverage of the pandemic, which may have shaped pandemic attitudes, according to a new U-M analysis of U.S. media coverage from March to… Continue reading Early COVID-19 news coverage amplified political divide
Consumer sentiment remains low for fifth month
ANN ARBOR—Consumer sentiment has remained trendless in the same depressed range it has traveled in the past five months, according to the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers. The August figure posted an insignificant gain of just +0.4 Index points above the April to July average, said U-M economist Richard Curtin, director of the surveys.… Continue reading Consumer sentiment remains low for fifth month
Online court tool that reduces disparities, virus spread wins annual U-M innovation award
ANN ARBOR—For developing technology that’s helping to democratize the justice system while decreasing the spread of COVID-19, University of Michigan law professor J.J. Prescott has earned this year’s Distinguished University Innovator Award. Prescott will receive the award Sept. 21 at the 20th Celebrate Invention, an annual event that recognizes entrepreneurship and inventions from University of… Continue reading Online court tool that reduces disparities, virus spread wins annual U-M innovation award
Families are restricted from visiting hospitalized loved ones. What does this mean for at-home care?
ANN ARBOR—While necessary to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, an unintended side effect of barring hospital visitors during the pandemic has been families’ loss of learning how to care for ill or injured loved ones at their bedside. In collaboration with a large team of researchers, doctors, nurses and health care providers, the University… Continue reading Families are restricted from visiting hospitalized loved ones. What does this mean for at-home care?