COVID-19: Frankly, My Dears, We Still Need to Give A Damn!

Unbiased Science

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🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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On this episode of the podcast, we tackle a topic that many of us wish we could put behind us once and for all: COVID-19. We kick things off with some updated data on the state of COVID-19 hospitalizations and the significant undercounting of cases—and that, despite our wishes, we still need to have COVID-19 on our radar. We spend some time discussing the new bivalent COVID-19 booster and some newly available data on its efficacy. We then chat about low vaccine and booster uptake and some potential reasons why we aren’t seeing better vaccine uptake, particularly among young children. We discuss long COVID—some new information on whether vaccines can impact the likelihood of long COVID, as well as the need for more research in this area. Finally, we spend some time discussing President Biden’s recent comment about the pandemic being over. Spoiler alert: we don’t think it’s quite as cut and dry as that, and feel we are in a subacute pandemic state. You don’t want to miss this! Check us out on Substack and Instagram: www.theunbiasedscipod.substack.com https://www.instagram.com/unbiasedscipod PLEASE NOTE: The discussion and information provided in this podcast are for general educational, scientific, and informational purposes only and are not intended as, and should not be treated as, medical or other professional advice for any particular individual or individuals. Every person and medical issue is different, and diagnosis and treatment requires consideration of specific facts often unique to the individual. As such, the information contained in this podcast should not be used as a substitute for consultation with and/or treatment by a doctor or other medical professional. If you are experiencing any medical issue or have any medical concern, you should consult with a doctor or other medical professional. Further, due to the inherent limitations of a podcast such as this as well as ongoing scientific developments, we do not guarantee the completeness or accuracy of the information or analysis provided in this podcast, although, of course we always endeavor to provide comprehensive information and analysis. In no event may Unbiased Science or any of the participants in this podcast be held liable to the listener or anyone else for any decision allegedly made or action allegedly taken or not taken allegedly in reliance on the discussion or information in this podcast or for any damages allegedly resulting from such reliance.

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:19.6	Welcome to Unbiased Science, where we bring scientific method to the madness.
0:25.2	We're your hosts, Dr. Jessica Steyer.
0:27.4	And Dr. Andrea Love.
0:28.6	And this week, we are going to do a bit of a status update on the state of infectious disease around the world.
0:36.4	This will be a two-part episode where we discuss COVID, monkeypox, and polio.
0:41.3	And this week, we are going to focus on COVID-19.
0:45.3	So, Andrea, are you ready to dig in and give a status update on COVID?
0:49.3	You know it.
0:50.3	And if you didn't tune in to last week's episode, make sure you check that out. We talked
0:56.4	about naturopathy, which is a very controversial topic. And we did a deep dive. We debunk some miss.
1:03.4	And we hopefully provided a nice overview of what it is and what it isn't. All right. So COVID-19, let's talk about case counts to start. So as of now,
1:15.4	there are about 54,000 daily cases being reported. And per Dr. Michael Osterholm, who's an infectious
1:22.4	disease specialist at the University of Minnesota, there were about two million cases reported over the past month or so.
1:31.0	And we know that this is substantial underreporting. Andrea, I think you have some information on...
1:37.5	Yeah, I think based on summer projections and wastewater surveillance and other sorts of parameters that we can use to get
1:45.9	a gauge. It's estimated that this is undercounting possibly as much as tenfold. So for every
1:52.6	10,000 cases that are reported, there's actually 100,000 cases. So if we're saying there's 54,000
1:59.1	daily cases, we're actually close to, you know, half a million or more.
2:02.9	And that's really because so many people are utilizing at-home testing, which is a great tool.
2:09.0	But unfortunately, those data are not reported to county, local, or state public health entities.
2:16.1	So while the daily case count is kind of an
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