Episode 176: Responding to Shock, Awe, and Censorship

Osterholm Update

CIDRAP

Science

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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In "Responding to Shock, Awe, and Censorship" Dr. Osterholm and Chris Dall provide updates on the latest news in the federal government and how it is impacting public health locally and globally. Dr. Osterholm also discusses the latest developments in H5N1 avian flu and answers an ID query about the tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas.  <a href="https://theunbiasedscipod.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-a-failure-why-this-latest">Anatomy of a Failure: Why This Latest Vaccine-Autism Paper is Dead Wrong</a> (Jess Steier and Bertha Hidalgo, Unbiased Science, Substack) <a href="https://www.sciencediplomacy.org/article/2013/making-pepfar">Making PEPFAR: A Triumph of Medical Diplomacy</a> (Harold Varmus, AAAS) Follow us on <a href="https://bsky.app/">Bluesky</a>: Dr. Michael Osterholm (<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/mtosterholm.bsky.social">@mtosterholm.bsky.social</a>) and CIDRAP (<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/cidrap.bsky.social">cidrap.bsky.social</a>) <a href="https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/osterholm-update-covid-19">MORE EPISODES</a>       <a href="https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/support-cidrap">SUPPORT THIS PODCAST</a>

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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.
0:15.4	Dr. Ostrome is an internationally recognized medical detective and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, or CIDRAP, at the University of Minnesota. In this podcast, Dr. O. Strom
0:26.9	draws on nearly 50 years of experience investigating infectious disease outbreaks to provide
0:31.8	straight talk on the latest infectious disease and public health threats. I'm Chris Dahl,
0:37.2	reporter for CidWap News, and I'm Chris Dahl, reporter for Sidrap News,
0:38.5	and I'm your host for these conversations. Welcome back, everyone, to another episode of the
0:46.6	Osterholm Update podcast. It's been less than three weeks since Donald Trump officially began
0:51.9	his second term in office, And yet the moves his administration
0:55.1	is made in that short time could have profound and lasting impacts on public health and our ability
1:00.9	to fight infectious disease. A freeze on foreign aid that funds HIV treatment programs, upon which
1:07.0	the lives of more than 20 million people on antiretroviral drugs depend.
1:11.8	Pauses on National Institutes of Health Grants that fund much of the nation's infectious disease research,
1:17.3	removal of pages from the CDC website, and most recently, the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
1:25.1	The list goes on and changes by the minute. Some of these moves
1:28.8	may be temporary. At this point, we just don't know. But they are, at the very least, a signal that
1:33.8	the U.S. government's longstanding efforts to fight infectious disease and promote public health,
1:38.3	both here at home and around the world, could be in jeopardy as the Trump administration looks
1:42.8	for ways to cut spending.
1:48.7	We're going to start this February 6th episode of the podcast with a look at these moves,
1:51.5	who has been affected, and what it all means.
1:55.7	We'll also discuss the confirmation hearings of Robert F. Kennedy to be secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, review the latest respiratory virus data,
2:00.3	update you on latest developments in the
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