With COVID-19 circulating in Michigan for about a year, IPPSR's State of the State podcast looks back to the influenza pandemic of 1918 with this month's guest, Siddharth Chandra, professor in MSU’s James Madison College,. He reflects on the current pandemic coronavirus and its parallels to his decade of research into a fatal flu infection that felled some 15,000 Michigan residents.
Podcasters agree the pandemic flu's lessons of the past should infuse Michigan's present, even at a time as the coronavirus of 2020 is itself being tested by vaccines. Federal stimulus may boost the state's economic fortunes, predicts MSU Economist Charles Ballard. IPPSR Director Matt Grossmann notes that large institutions -- government, corporation, drug companies and major universities -- have brought substantial research to bear in the fight against the infectious COVID-19. Associate IPPSR Director Arnold Weinfeld foresees the potential for a "social explosion" as the vaccines open homebound doors to summer recreation and travel.
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