Episode 122: Shutting Down Misinformation

Osterholm Update

CIDRAP

Science

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In "Shutting Down Misinformation," Dr. Osterholm and Chris Dall discuss the state of the pandemic in the US and around the world, China’s struggle to keep up with its dramatic rise in COVID cases and deaths, and the vaccine misinformation that is spreading on social media.

Articles mentioned in this episode:

The bivalent booster outperforms, Eric Topol (https://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-bivalent-vaccine-booster-outperforms)
COVID-19 and Excess All-Cause Mortality in the US and 20 Comparison Countries, June 2021-March 2022, A. Bilinkski et al (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2798990)

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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.
0:41.5	Welcome back everyone to another episode of the Ostrome Update Podcast.
0:45.3	And happy new year to the podcast family.
0:48.0	As we begin this new year, the pandemic storyline is taking on familiar feel.
0:52.5	Many people in the US and other parts of the world are ready to be done with the virus,
0:55.8	but the virus continues to let us know it's not done with us.
0:59.3	The latest reminder of that fact is the Omicron Sub variant XBB.1.5, which World Health Organization
1:05.6	officials say is the most transmissible version of the SARS-CoV-2 virus yet.
1:10.6	The world may be in a better place in terms of managing COVID-19, but the virus's ability
1:15.0	to keep collecting mutations that help it evade our immune defenses suggests this pandemic
1:19.6	may have a longer tail than any of us had hoped.
1:22.7	With the virus now exploding in China, the threat of future variants remains ever present.
1:27.6	On this January 12th episode of the podcast, we're going to talk about what's happening
1:31.0	in China, the US, and other parts of the world as we assess the state of a pandemic now
1:35.7	entering its fourth year.
1:37.3	We'll also look at what we know and what we don't know about the XBB.1.5 variant.
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