Michigan Today: A Professor’s War for Peace
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Michigan Today: A Professor’s War for Peace

A PROFESSOR’S WAR FOR PEACE

Michigan Today March 26

Making Michigan Lecture Series - The Journeys of Anatol Rapoport - watch video here

On a sunny December morning in 1921, 10-year-old Anatol Rapoport walked gingerly along the Zbruch River in Soviet Ukraine carrying his brand new pair of ice skates. He stayed close to a fence to hide his movements and peered carefully through a gap toward the Polish border. After nine days of waiting, he had found his moment.

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STAT NEWS: ‘Every day is an emergency’: The pandemic is worsening psychiatric bed shortages nationwide
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STAT NEWS: ‘Every day is an emergency’: The pandemic is worsening psychiatric bed shortages nationwide

The Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically cut the availability of inpatient psychiatric beds, with facilities across the country forced to reduce their capacity to meet social distancing requirements, stem outbreaks of the virus, or repurpose psychiatric beds to care for the surge of Covid-19 patients.
The crisis — combined with years of mental health care budget cuts, rising demand for mental health care, and an existing shortage of both psychiatric beds and providers — appears to have put health care systems on a wartime footing.

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