University of Michigan graduate, professional students to get weekly COVID-19 testing
Updated Feb 05, 2021;
ANN ARBOR, MI Graduate and professional students living on or coming to the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus will undergo mandatory, weekly COVID-19 testing, UM President Mark Schlissel announced Friday.
Testing for graduate and professional students will begin on Feb. 16, Schlissel wrote in a message to the campus community. In the message, Schlissel acknowledged the growing spread of COVID-19 within the campus community, which includes 23 cases of the more contagious B.1.1.7 COVID-19 variant.
Citing UM’s COVID-19 dashboard, Schlissel said cases associated with the university have increased significantly and now represent 34% of the total cases in Washtenaw County. For the week of Jan. 31, the university has had 171 positive COVID-19 cases, dashboard data shows.
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But as the investigation of that cluster continues, healthcare professionals believe the woman who traveled to the UK may not be the only source. It s a stark reminder that this virus is not done with us, said Susan Ringler Cerniglia, Washtenaw County Health Department.
The case was in Washtenaw County and the woman infected is a member of the University of Michigan Ann Arbor community who had recently been to the United Kingdom where the variant originated from.
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MICHIGAN â Tuesday afternoon, President Joe Biden signed an executive order requiring the Department of Justice not to renew contracts with private prisons and facilities. Biden said he did it an effort to address and fix systemic racism in America.
Activist Ed Genesis of Kalamazoo was excited to see it.
âI feel hopeful just seeing this,â Genesis said during a Zoom interview on Wednesday afternoon. âPrivate prisons was just wrong, period; just for somebody to be able to invest or build something for the pure gain of capitalism.â