Hi there, I'm Dr. Marney Peterson, an expert in Antibioticoma resistance and host of

Stewardship Spotlight, another podcast produced by the team at SidRap.

The Stewardship Spotlight podcast features discussions with world renowned experts on topics

related to Antimicoma resistance and stewardship of antibiotics.

Over the next few weeks, we're releasing three new episodes featuring fascinating discussions

with experts on how patient care can be improved through the use of advanced diagnostic tools.

Be sure to subscribe to Stewardship Spotlight, which is linked in the episode notes so you

don't miss any of these important conversations.

Hello and welcome to the Ostrome Update COVID-19, a podcast on the COVID-19 pandemic with

Dr. Michael Ostrome.

Dr. Ostrome is an internationally recognized medical detective and director of the Center

for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, or SidRap, at the University of Minnesota.

In this podcast, Dr. Ostrome will draw on more than 45 years of experience investigating

infectious disease outbreaks to provide straight talk on the COVID-19 pandemic.

I'm Chris Dahl, reporter for SidRap News, and I'm your host for these conversations.

Welcome back everyone to another episode of the Ostrome Update Podcast.

Every once in a while, I like to go back through my old scripts for this podcast just to remind

myself what the pandemic mood was like six months, nine months, or even a year ago.

So this week I went back and looked at my introduction for the February 19th, 2021 episode.

Here's what I wrote.

Quote, as cases continue their steady decline in the United States and more people get vaccinated,

you can feel the complacency starting to set in.

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