University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel and Provost Susan Collins are answering questions from U-M community about COVID, starting in about 5 minutes. Follow along: @freep

A note of context: Graduate student instructors and assistants, along with student resident hall workers, are in their second week of a strike. Yesterday, U-M filed a court motion asking for unions to be forced back to work.

Asking the questions will be Scott Page, a faculty member in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Stephen M. Ross School of Business, from ones submitted before event. Administration has said he is only one to see the questions

Faculty is also set for a vote of no confidence against @DrMarkSchlissel on Weds.

@DrMarkSchlissel: I really feel a lack of trust across the campus, in me. I'm looking for ways to rebuild the trust

@DrMarkSchlissel: That lack of trust plays out in people saying you aren't telling us everything

Question from Page: What were the set of options that were considered for the semester? Collins: People think about this as a choice between very different options. That's not the case. Says in online only students would still come to Ann Arbor

@DrMarkSchlissel: Says university needed to be more centralized than normal. Says one error made: What I lost sight of was the breadth of how campus is experienced.

@DrMarkSchlissel: Testing is one component of a public health strategy. Testing doesn't protect you from disease, it tells you if you are sick

@DrMarkSchlissel: It's not just the ability to buy a test, it's about getting results back quickly. "what we did was use the capacity we had to test sick people."

@DrMarkSchlissel: Says Illinois did the best job in testing, notes entire residence hall at Illinois is locked down, because they tested but there were still parties.

Colllins: In some places, we have not done as well as we should have done. It's not excusable that any of our students in quarantine aren't well supported with the supplies they need. (students complained they didn't have microwaves or cleaning supplies and got cold food.)

BTW, you can watch the conversation here: https://umich.edu/watch/ 

@DrMarkSchlissel: if you compare how we are doing - even up in East Lansing - students are doing very well, protecting themselves.