A BA.4 and BA.5 World

Osterholm Update

CIDRAP

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4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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In this episode, Dr. Osterholm and Chris Dall discuss the state of the pandemic in the U.S. and around the world, the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants, and the recent approval of vaccines for children under 5. Dr. Osterholm also provides an update on monkeypox and shares a Celebration of Life from one of our listeners.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, we wanted to take a moment to share a brief message with you from SIDRAP as we
0:04.6	near the end of the fiscal year. The COVID-19 pandemic, the monkeypox outbreak, and other emerging
0:10.3	worldwide infectious disease developments remind us how critical it is to have access to high
0:15.2	quality, authoritative, and unbiased scientific information. And that's exactly what you get from
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0:47.3	Hello and welcome to the Ostrome Update COVID-19, a podcast on the COVID-19 pandemic with Dr. Michael
0:59.9	Ostrome. Dr. Ostrome is an internationally recognized medical detective and director of the
1:05.2	Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, or SIDRAP, at the University of Minnesota.
1:10.3	In this podcast, Dr. Ostrome will draw on more than 45 years of experience investigating infectious
1:15.1	disease outbreaks to provide straight talk on the COVID-19 pandemic. I'm Chris Dahl, reporter
1:20.8	of SIDRAP news, and I'm your host for these conversations.
1:29.0	Welcome back everyone to another episode of the Ostrome Update podcast. A recent article in the
1:34.2	New York Times noted that in the three months since the highly contagious Omicron variants launched
1:38.4	a wave of new coronavirus cases in the United States, the spread of the virus, and the number of
1:43.6	deaths from COVID-19, have diverged more than ever before, and that Americans are dying of COVID
1:48.7	at a rate close to the lowest to the pandemic. Still, an average of more than 300 people are dying
1:54.7	from COVID-19 every day in the United States. At that rate, the virus is killing more than twice as
2:00.4	many Americans every day as suicide or car crashes are. New York Times reporter Benjamin Mueller wrote,
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