Episode 133: No Simple Answers

Osterholm Update

CIDRAP

Science

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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In this episode, Dr. Osterholm and Chris Dall discuss national and international COVID trends, a study on metformin and long COVID incidence, and the use of N95 respirators for protection against wildfire smoke. Dr. Osterholm also answers a COVID query on booster doses and shares a moment of joy from one of our listeners.

Outpatient treatment of COVID-19 and incidence of post-COVID-19 condition over 10 months (COVID-OUT): a multicentre, randomised, quadruple-blind, parallel-group, phase 3 trial (Bramante et al., Lancet Infectious Disease)
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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.
0:45.4	It's June 15th, and later today, the FDA's vaccines-related biological products advisory
0:50.4	committee, or VerbPAC, will be meeting to discuss what SARS-CoV-2 strains should be
0:55.3	included in the next round of COVID-19 shots.
0:58.1	That's among the topics we'll be discussing today in the podcast, as we look at the International
1:02.8	and National COVID-19 Trends.
1:04.6	We'll also discuss a new paper on country-level predictors of COVID-19 mortality, some intriguing
1:10.1	findings on a potential treatment for long COVID, and whether N95 respirators can help protect
1:15.4	people from wildfire smoke.
1:17.3	We'll also share our first moments of joy submission from one of our listeners.
1:21.6	But before we get started, as always, we'll begin with Dr. Ostrome's opening comments
1:25.8	and dedication.
1:29.7	Thank you, Chris, and welcome back to everyone in the podcast family.
1:32.8	It's great to be with you again.
1:34.6	I hope you've had a good two weeks since we last got together.
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