Hello and welcome to the Osterholm update, a podcast on COVID-19 and other infectious diseases with Dr Michael Osterholm.

Dr Ostrom is an internationally recognized medical detective and director of the Center for

Infectious Disease Research and Policy or or Sidrapp at the University of Minnesota.

In this podcast, Dr. Ostrom draws on nearly 50 years of experience investigating

infectious disease outbreaks to provide straight talk on the latest infectious disease

and public health threats.

I'm Chris Dahl, reporter for Sidrapp News,

and I'm your host for these conversations.

Welcome back. conversations.

Welcome back everyone to another episode of the Osterholm Update Podcast. And a busy episode it will be, as there has been a lot of COVID-related news since our last episode.

Among the topics we'll be discussing on this March 7th episode of the podcast,

after we examine the latest COVID-19 data from the United States and other parts of the world is the recent COVID

vaccine recommendation from the Advisory Committee on Immunization

practices. Another is the CDC's new COVID isolation guidelines and the reaction we've received from some of our

listeners. On today's episode we're also going to spend some time discussing the

measles outbreak in Florida and the actions of Florida's Surgeon General.

We'll also provide an update on COVID-19 variants,

look at the latest flu and RSV data,

discuss some recent Avian influenza news,

and we'll bring you the latest installment of this week in public health history.

But before we get started, we'll begin with Dr. Osterome's opening comments and dedication.

Thanks, Chris, and welcome back to the podcast family to another edition of the update.

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