COVID-19 Digest - May 16, 2021

Through the spring semester, campus officials are providing weekly updates. In this issue: Operational updates from the Pandemic Response Office, changes to COVID-19 requirements, updated summer event guidance and more.

A group of 39 researchers from 14 countries say we need to change how we regulate the air we breathe inside buildings, like we do the food we eat and the water we drink, in order to reduce disease transmission and prevent the next pandemic.

Some worry the science was rushed. Others question whether the benefits outweigh the risks. Here's what Teresa Foley, a teaching professor of distinction in integrative physiology, tells students, acquaintances and family who are hesitant.