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March 16, 2022
Gym owners look for a return to normal, despite omicron The Columbus Dispatch: Mark Cameron, associate professor at the School of Medicine, said that while early death tolls and hospitalization rates suggest the omicron version of COVID is less severe than previous variants, infectious disease…
March 16, 2022
Are police overdosing by touching fentanyl? Experts say it’s unlikely. People are being locked up for it anyway. BuzzFeed: Ryan Marino, assistant professor at the School of Medicine, said that the hype around the perceived threat of death by simple exposure to fentanyl is harming overdose victims,…
March 16, 2022
Daunte Wright death: US 'Taser mix-up' ex-officer guilty of manslaughter BBC News: Ayesha Bell Hardaway, associate professor of law and co-director of the Social Justice Institute, said it is "very rare" for police officers to be held legally responsible for deaths that happened in the line of…
March 16, 2022
Candida cleanses: Are anti-yeast diets just a fad? WebMD: Mahmoud Ghannoum, professor at the School of Medicine, said he’s happy that the general public wants to learn more about candida—he just wants the depictions to be accurate.
March 16, 2022
The CWRU Film Society has released its fourth-quarter schedule that includes plenty of co-sponsorships and special matinee showings as well as the 47th Science Fiction Marathon. Regular showtimes take place Fridays or Saturdays at 7 p.m. in Strosacker Auditorium. Tickets are $4 on CampusGroups or…
March 16, 2022
Omicron prompts rethink of vaccine impact, COVID-19 mandates Yahoo Finance: Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, noted that the legality of states and local governments imposing vaccine mandates has been upheld by the Supreme Court.
March 16, 2022
Suburban Cleveland homicides rose in 2021, data shows cleveland.com: Daniel Flannery, director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, blamed an increase in suburban homicide on the excessive number of guns already on the street and easy accessibility to them.
March 16, 2022
Case Western Reserve Univ. converts vending machines to dispense COVID tests for students, staff WEWS-TV5: Megan Koeth, executive director of the Department of Resiliency, explained the innovative strategy of stocking a dozen vending machines with COVID tests throughout campus.
March 16, 2022
University Technology ([U]Tech) would like to make the campus community aware that upon departing the university, Case Western Reserve faculty, staff and students will lose access to their CWRU Zoom accounts the following day. Scheduled upcoming meetings and any recordings will be retained for…
March 16, 2022
President Eric W. Kaler announced today that, effective this year, Juneteenth will be a permanent holiday in Case Western Reserve's annual calendar. Juneteenth marks the June 19, 1865, when union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced that all slaves were free. While President…