Sixth grader Sara Bergman confesses she spends a significant amount of time watching reels and enjoys it, like most kids her age. Once she starts scrolling through the short videos, stopping is challenging.
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System Failure
The mission of senior care facilities to ease residents’ twilight years turned into a nightmare after state leaders failed to adequately separate COVID-19 patients from healthy individuals.
When COVID-19 started roiling through nursing homes last winter, Cecelia Payne had more
at stake than most. And her worst fears soon became reality. Her husband, Arnold Brown, 78, died of COVID-19 on April 24, 2020, at McLaren Macomb Hospital in Mt. Clemens after being transferred there from the Martha T. Berry Medical Care Facility.
Brown, a former manufacturing tooling engineer before a stroke disabled him, had been in the Mt. Clemens skilled nursing facility since 2006. His roommate at the medical care facility died, as well. “I really do feel that he got it from a staff member,” Payne, of Macomb Township, says of her husband’s illness. “Especially when I learned his roommate had it, too.”
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While at-home schooling has created new challenges for families, researchers say there have been some benefits for typically underserved communities.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, K-12 education has been conducted largely online for more than a year. Researchers are examining the impact on kids.
Kristin Fontichiaro, University of Michigan School of Information clinical associate professor, recently co-wrote an editorial piece in the Journal of Children and Media on how remote learning has blurred the line between school and home life. She says the implications of that transition are starting to be recognized.
“There seems to be a sizable appetite for online learning for some students that will extend beyond the pandemic.” Kristin Fontichiaro, University of Michigan
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