Episode 141: One Huge Puzzle
Osterholm Update
CIDRAP
4.8 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In "One Huge Puzzle," Dr. Osterholm and Chris Dall discuss the state of the pandemic in the U.S. and around the world, the rollout of the updated mRNA vaccines, and two recently published studies on long COVID. Dr. Osterholm also shares his thoughts on the updated Novavax vaccine and answers an ID Query about COVID vaccine side effects.
- A one-way ticket. A cash-stuffed teddy bear. A dream decades in the making. (Carolyn Johnson, Washington Post)
- A scientific hunch. Then silence. Until the world needed a lifesaving vaccine. (Carolyn Johnson, Washington Post)
- ‘A deadly societal force’: A Q&A with author Dr. Peter Hotez on the anti-science movement. (Mary Van Beusekom, CIDRAP News)
- Do you ‘matter’ to others? The answer could predict your mental health. (Francine Russo, Scientific American)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Ostrome Update, a podcast on COVID-19 and other infectious diseases |
| 0:13.5 | with Dr. Michael Ostrome. Dr. Ostrome is an internationally recognized medical detective |
| 0:19.1 | and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, or SIDRAP, at |
| 0:23.4 | the University of Minnesota. In this podcast, Dr. Ostrome draws on nearly 50 years of experience |
| 0:29.0 | investigating infectious disease outbreaks to provide straight talk on the latest infectious |
| 0:34.0 | disease and public health threats. I'm Chris Dahl, reporter for SIDRAP News, and I'm your |
| 0:39.1 | host for these conversations. Welcome back everyone to another episode of the Ostrome Update podcast. |
| 0:48.4 | While one can point to many failures in the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic, |
| 0:53.0 | the effort to develop and produce an effective vaccine and get it out to the American public in |
| 0:57.7 | an efficient manner should be considered one of the success stories. But in the weeks since the |
| 1:02.5 | approval of the latest booster shot, the rollout has been a bit messier. Media reporting suggests |
| 1:08.0 | some people are having trouble finding the vaccine or getting their insurance to pay for it, |
| 1:12.0 | and some nursing homes haven't even begun vaccinating residents. But perhaps more concerning is the |
| 1:16.8 | fact that there are a lot of people who have decided for whatever reason that they won't be getting |
| 1:21.1 | the booster shot. A recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that fewer than half of U.S. adults |
| 1:26.6 | will definitely or probably get the booster. Will that have an impact on our health care system |
| 1:30.8 | this winter? This is one of the topics we're going to be discussing on this October 5th episode of |
| 1:35.6 | the podcast as we look at the international and national COVID trends. We'll also provide an |
| 1:40.8 | update on the variant picture, discuss a recent report on the number of Americans who are reporting |
| 1:45.1 | long COVID symptoms, answer an ID query on COVID vaccine side effects, and talk about some recommended |
| 1:51.5 | changes for the flu vaccine. We'll also bring you the latest installment of this week in public health |
| 1:56.8 | history. But before we get started, as always, we'll begin with Dr. Hostrom's opening comments and |
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