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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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How Do Hospitals Prepare for a Pandemic?

Q&A with David Hutton

Even when we’re not facing a global pandemic, influxes in patients happen fairly regularly and there’s a lot hospitals have already been doing to prepare. What makes this situation different and how are hospitals responding? Health Management and Policy professor David Hutton explains.