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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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