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Engineering junior Simrun Buttar
is still living on campus, primarily to
keep her family members back home
safe.
“My grandma lives at home with me
in California and I’m kind of worried if
I’m not absolutely sure I don’t have (the
coronavirus), that I don’t positively put
any member of my family member in
danger,” Buttar said.
Buttar said it’s also helpful to be
on campus for one of her engineering
courses, which requires an extensive
amount of understanding.
“It’s a class where I really struggle
to learn the concepts, and I’ve tried
a lot to go virtual with it, where my
group member is in his apartment and
I’m in mine,” Buttar said. “But, I feel
it’s not the same substitutability as us
being in-person.”
One difficulty she has faced with
living off-campus is getting food, she
explained. Buttar cannot get groceries
as she normally would as she doesn’t
have a car, Instacart is already working
with a high volume of deliveries and
the rental car services in Ann Arbor,
like Maven, shut down due to COVID-
19. She said she has since been using a
meal plan at South Quad.
“Usually I’d just go to MoJo because
it’s a lot closer to me and it’s my favorite
dining hall,” Buttar said. “But now I’ll
make the trek over to South Quad just
because it’s the only one open, and I’m
mindful of the groceries I still have
because I know restocking it will be a
challenge.”
Still, Buttar reflected on how an
empty campus has allowed her to
restart some of her old hobbies. For
instance, she said she has recently
started knitting again, ordered a paint-
by-numbers set and started watching
TV shows to keep herself busy.
University alum Markeidus Hall
worked at Markley Dining Hall until
it closed due to the novel coronavirus.
He stayed in Ann Arbor in his off-
campus housing to not put his mother,
who has a compromised immune
system, at risk. He said his time spent
outside and exercise have dropped
significantly given the stay-at-home
order.
“Before everything closed, I was
definitely playing basketball at the
CCRB (Central Campus Recreation
Building) and doing outdoor activities
and stuff,” Hall said. “I also got a
decent amount of walking in getting
(to) and working at Markley Dining
Hall, too, before it closed and they
recommended us to stay at home ...
Now, it’s basically a ghost town out
there. The most exercise I get is pacing
back and forth in my room.”
Hall graduated early last semester
and reflected on the difficulties
affecting his classmates graduating in
the spring given the postponement of
commencement and other activities
pertaining to graduation.
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Members of the Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO) host a car rally for fair wages throughout the streets of Ann Arbor Friday afternoon.
Michigan Medicine receives
22,000 unusable surgical masks
Defunct supplies from federal stockpile sent to hospital amid virus outreak
As part of its effort to curb the
impact of COVID-19, the federal
government
shipped
more
than
700,000 surgical masks to the state of
Michigan last week from its stockpile.
Michigan Medicine received 22,000
of those masks, but they are defunct,
the Detroit Free Press reported on
Tuesday.
Michigan Medicine spokeswoman
Mary Masson told The Daily in an
email that 2,000 of these masks were
initially distributed to employees, but
they, along with the remaining 20,000,
were quickly removed from inventory
after discovering they were less
durable. She noted Michigan Medicine
has enough masks without them.
“Michigan Medicine distributed
about 2,000 of 22,000 ear loop masks
we received from the strategic national
stockpile last week,” Masson said. “We
found them to be less durable and so
have removed as many as possible from
inventory and are not distributing the
rest. We currently have an adequate
supply of face masks so we were able to
provide others to our staff.”
This
comes
after
Michigan
Medicine nurses have expressed their
frustration about the lack of personal
protective equipment and the fact they
are not allowed to bring their own
personal protective equipment, such
as N95 masks, to work.
Michigan
reported
27,001
confirmed cases of COVID-19 on April
14, with 772 of those in Washtenaw
County.
As of April 7, more than 100
Michigan
Medicine
employees
have tested positive for the novel
coronavirus.
Michigan, however, is not the only
state to receive unusable equipment
from the federal stockpile. Alabama
received 6,000 masks with dry rot and
150 of the ventilators sent to California
were broken.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
engaged in a public conversation
with President Donald Trump from
late March to early April where the
two exchanged criticisms of their
respective handling of the pandemic.
Whitmer asked for supplies from
the federal government, including
protective equipment and testing kits.
Out of the 25,000 ventilators requested
by Whitmer, she received 400 from the
federal stockpile, as of April 7.
The Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention recommends people
wash their hands often and avoid
touching their faces. Anyone who
believes they have been exposed to
COVID-19 should call their primary
care physician or reach out to the
local health department, which in
Washtenaw County can be reached at
734-544-6700.
Daily News Editor Emma Stein can
be reached at enstein@umich.edu.
EMMA STEIN
Daily News Editor
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