Episode 102: Choose Your Own Path

Osterholm Update

CIDRAP

Science

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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In "Choose Your Own Path," Dr. Osterholm and Chris Dall discuss the state of the pandemic in the US and around the world, address recent comments about future COVID surges in the US, and answer a non-COVID query about pediatric hepatitis cases. Dr. Osterholm also provides some insight into how he has been handling the transition into a new normal and shares a beautiful place from one of our listeners.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Ostrome Update COVID-19, a podcast on the COVID-19 pandemic with
0:11.8	Dr. Michael Ostrome.
0:13.8	Dr. Ostrome is an internationally recognized medical detective and director of the Center
0:18.0	for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, or CITRAP, at the University of Minnesota.
0:23.0	In this podcast, Dr. Ostrome will draw on more than 45 years of experience investigating
0:27.2	infectious disease outbreaks to provide straight talk on the COVID-19 pandemic.
0:32.1	I'm Chris Dahl, reporter for CITRAP News, and I'm your host for these conversations.
0:41.6	Welcome back everyone to another episode of the Ostrome Update Podcast.
0:45.4	If you're confused right now about where we are in the COVID-19 pandemic, you're not
0:48.9	alone.
0:49.9	Though cases continue to rise across the country, last week, White House chief medical advisor
0:54.4	Dr. Anthony Fauci said the country was in a more controlled phase of the pandemic.
0:59.2	At the same time, he declined to attend the White House Correspondent's Association dinner,
1:03.5	an indoor event attended by roughly 2,000 unmasked people because of his assessment of the
1:08.1	personal risk.
1:09.4	President Biden meanwhile attended the dinner.
1:12.1	This situation seems to encapsulate where we are as a country in year three of the pandemic.
1:17.2	With few, if any, mitigation measures in place around the country, we are all in a choose
1:21.8	your own path mode.
1:23.5	Faced with making our own decisions about what level of risk we think is acceptable.
1:27.9	For some, that's exactly how it should be.
1:30.7	For others, it feels irresponsible.
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