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Osterholm Update

Episode 93: What the World Needs

Osterholm Update

CIDRAP

Science

4.82.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In "What the World Needs," Dr. Osterholm discusses the new CDC guidance, provides an update on the trajectory of the pandemic nationally and internationally, discusses new data on vaccine efficacy in 5- to 11-year-olds, examines new research on the origins of SARS-CoV-2, and answers a COVID Query about Ukraine.

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0:00.0

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

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Dr. Michael Ostrome.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Late last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new COVID-19 community

0:50.0

guidance that allows much of the country to ease indoor masking and other COVID-19 restrictions

0:54.8

according to new baseline measures that take into account not only cases, but also hospitalization

1:00.1

levels and hospital capacity.

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According to the new CDC guidance, roughly 70% of Americans are in areas with low or medium

1:07.3

levels of COVID-19 and no longer need to wear masks unless they're immunocompromised

1:12.0

or at high risk of severe disease.

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None of us know what the future may hold for us and for this virus and we need to be prepared

1:19.2

and we need to be ready for whatever comes next.

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CDC director Rochelle Wollensky said in the press briefing, we want to give people a break

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from things like mask wearing when our levels are low and then have the ability to reach

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for them again should things get worse in the future she added.

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The new CDC guidance is among the first steps into the next phase of the pandemic, a phase

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that President Biden discussed in his state of the union address and the White House laid

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