Episode 8: Raring to Reopen

Osterholm Update

CIDRAP

Science

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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In this episode, Dr. Osterholm and host Chris Dall discuss the many states beginning to reopen, the strategy being pursued in Sweden, the challenges and reality of a COVID-19 vaccine, and theories that the virus came from a lab. Email us your questions at <a href="mailto:OsterholmUpdate@umn.edu">OsterholmUpdate@umn.edu</a> STAT news article on vaccines: <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/06/mounting-promises-on-covid-vaccines/">https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/06/mounting-promises-on-covid-vaccines/</a> CIDRAP story on coronavirus conspiracies: <a href="https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/05/scientists-exactly-zero-evidence-covid-19-came-lab">https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/05/scientists-exactly-…</a>

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Oster Home Update, COVID-19, a weekly podcast on the COVID-19
0:10.9	pandemic with Dr. Michael Oster Home. Dr. Oster Home is an internationally recognized
0:15.7	medical detective and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
0:19.8	or CITRAP at the University of Minnesota. In this podcast, Dr. Oster Home will draw on
0:24.7	more than 45 years of experience investigating infectious disease outbreaks to provide
0:29.1	straight talk on the COVID-19 pandemic. I'm Chris Doll, reporter for CITRAP News. I'm your
0:34.4	host for these conversations. We've got a lot to get to in this episode, Mike, from the rush
0:44.9	to reopen to vaccines to what's going on in Sweden. But before we get to all that, I'd like to start
0:50.6	with your opening thoughts. Oh, thank you, Chris. Another busy week, a week with lots of issues,
1:00.6	questions, concerns about where are we going with the COVID-19 pandemic. But I'd like to start out
1:08.7	as I have in past episodes. And I think this particular dedication, which I'd like to make
1:15.9	is actually to what I believe will be many of the listeners. Over the course of the past weeks to
1:23.1	months, we've all been trying to internalize what this means. At first, it was quite abstract
1:29.6	because none of us knew anyone who actually was a COVID-19 case. And then some of us knew people,
1:37.2	and then some of us knew people who died. Others still may not have known anyone who's a case or who
1:44.3	have died. But we're all sitting here internalizing what will this look like when it's all over with.
1:51.4	And I've talked to more people in the past week who are admitting to themselves that they do think
2:00.5	once a day, twice a day, when they wake up when they go to bed at night, when am I going to get it?
2:06.8	You're my going to get it. What will it do to me? And those who have known people who have been
2:11.8	seriously all over have died in even ways more in their minds. And I think it's really important
2:18.2	to we all acknowledge that it's okay to feel that way, that it's something that's normal.
2:26.2	I know I think about it, and there's times I just want to say, damn it, get it over with. I don't
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