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Michigan Tech COVID town hall shifts to environment

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Michigan Technological University’s Health Research Institute hosted its 16th COVID-19 town hall Thursday night, but most of the discussion veered into other topics. It started with an update from epidemiologist Kelly Kamm. The main thrust of her presentation was to continue to get vaccinated, and that means both doses if you are utilizing the Moderna or Pfizer options.

The information that we have and the studies that have been done on the efficacy of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine, about 95 percent efficacy, is based on two shots. It’s just like many of our other vaccinations. It is critical to go get that second booster, so you can be fully protected. If you don’t have the second vaccination, you would have to quarantine again.

Associate Professor Steve Elmer from the Department of Kinesiology and Integrative Physiology was a co-moderator of the event. He touched on recent research regarding COVID-19 risk factors.

Since our last town hall, there was a landmark study published, so new research is coming out. Really what the message is is that being physically inactive, so not really being active, is emerging as a new risk factor for severe COVID disease. Going to the hospital, being admitted to the ICU, and unfortunately dying. We expect and are optimistic that fairly soon that will be recognized on the CDC website.

The list of environmental topics was diverse, but sometimes tangentially related to COVID itself. Improvements in air quality due to economic shutdowns, food purchasing habits under quarantine, recent efforts from student groups to encourage Michigan Tech to divest from all fossil fuel industries, and Enbridge’s Line Five pipeline were all presented on.

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