Epidemiology Results

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High-Risk in the Time of Coronavirus: Protecting People with Diabetes

Q&A with Gretchen Piatt

Why are people with diabetes considered high-risk in the wake of this pandemic and what should those who contract COVID-19 do? Gretchen Piatt, associate professor of Learning Health Sciences and Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of Michigan Schools of Medicine and Public Health explains.

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Surveillance Testing: Gathering the Data on COVID-19

Q&A with Emily Martin

Emily Martin is an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and an expert in viral respiratory illnesses. She explains what surveillance testing is and how it can help us in the process of slowing the spread of this virus.

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Which Populations Are Most Vulnerable to the Coronavirus Pandemic?

Q&A with Sharon Kardia and Jon Zelner

For vulnerable populations—the elderly, those with chronic illness and mental health issues, and those without the means to work from home or access affordable health care—measures we've undertaken to slow the spread of coronavirus can have life-threatening consequences. To better understand how the virus will impact the most vulnerable, we spoke with University of Michigan School of Public Health epidemiologists Sharon Kardia and Jon Zelner.

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Coronavirus Information and Updates

Michigan Public Health Experts

As the 2019 Novel Coronavirus continues to spread, University of Michigan School of Public Health experts provide these answers to questions for the media and the general public about the virus itself, how it is transmitted, and how concerned we should be.