Episode 146: A Seasonless Virus
Osterholm Update
CIDRAP
4.8 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
In "A Seasonless Virus," Dr. Osterholm and Chris Dall discuss the latest COVID-19 trends in the U.S. and around the world, provide an update on influenza and RSV activity, and review two recent studies on long COVID. Dr. Osterholm also answers a listener question on fomite transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and celebrates a recent event in public health history.
- Report underscores financial pressure of long COVID on families (CIDRAP News)
- 5% of COVID-infected US veterans still had symptoms up to 1 year later (CIDRAP News)
SARS-CoV-2 disease severity and transmission efficiency is increased for airborne compared to fomite exposure in Syrian hamsters (Nature Communications, Port et al)
High prevalence of multidrug-resistant infections reported in Ukraine hospitals (CIDRAP News)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Osterholm update, a podcast on COVID-19 and other infectious diseases with Dr Michael Osterholm. |
| 0:15.0 | Dr Ostrom is an internationally recognized medical detective and director of the Center for |
| 0:20.3 | Infectious Disease Research and Policy or or Sidrapp at the University of Minnesota. |
| 0:25.2 | In this podcast, Dr. Ostrom draws on nearly 50 years of experience investigating |
| 0:29.6 | infectious disease outbreaks to provide straight talk on the latest infectious disease |
| 0:33.7 | and public health threats. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm Chris Dahl, reporter for Sidrapp News, |
| 0:38.5 | and I'm your host for these conversations. |
| 0:44.0 | Welcome back everyone to another episode of the Oster Home Update Podcast. |
| 0:48.0 | Although COVID-19 activity in the U.S. has been relatively quiet for much of the fall. |
| 0:53.0 | Last week's update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| 0:56.0 | is yet another reminder that SARS COV2 is very much still with us. |
| 1:00.0 | The CDC's two main severity indicators, hospitalizations and deaths, showed notable rises from the previous week. |
| 1:07.0 | Test positivity and emergency department visits were up, |
| 1:10.0 | and JN1 omercon's sub-varyant proportions jumped dramatically. |
| 1:14.6 | What's behind the resurgence? |
| 1:16.1 | That's one of the topics we're going to discuss on this December 14th episode of the |
| 1:20.2 | podcast as we look at the international and national COVID trends. |
| 1:24.1 | We'll also look at the latest flu and RSV data, discuss a new study on long COVID, |
| 1:29.6 | answer an ID query about COVID transmission via surfaces, |
| 1:33.5 | examine some concerning news about antibiotic resistance in Ukraine, |
| 1:37.5 | and bring you the latest installment of this week in public health history. |
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