Ji Hye Kim, the owner of Miss Kim in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which employs more than one staff member with underlying conditions, did not want any possibility of front-of-house exposure from diners.
In addition to TWC, Rogers is Director of Choirs at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he lives with his husband Mark, a music lover though not a musician.
To explore what the emergence of new variants might mean for reinfections, vaccines and the pandemic, Science News spoke to Aubree Gordon, an epidemiologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
“It’s certainly an interesting observation,” says Jeroen Ritsema, a seismologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor who was not involved in the work.
“You put that all together and it’s a pretty high barrier” for virus evolution to work around, says Adam Lauring, an infectious disease physician and virologist at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor.