Sidrapp is proud to announce that the OSTROM update podcast,

aside from being available on the Sidrapp website and usual streaming platforms,

we'll now also be airing on American Busker iHeart Radio.

So stay tuned.

Thank you American Busker iHeart Radio and owner founder Nancy Hahn.

Hello and welcome to the OSTROM update COVID-19,

a podcast on the COVID-19 pandemic with Dr. Michael OSTROM.

Dr. OSTROM is an internationally recognized medical detective

and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy,

or Sidrapp at the University of Minnesota.

In this podcast, Dr. OSTROM 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 Sidrapp News, and I'm your host for these conversations.

Welcome back everyone to another episode of the OSTROM update podcast.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, amid all the suffering and division that has been

unleashed by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, there have been some fleeting moments of hope.

Hope that facing a common enemy might bring us closer together,

that vaccines might lead us out of the pandemic, that the loss we've experienced might help us

reevaluate what is truly important, and that our public health system would emerge stronger

and better prepared for the next pandemic.

Unfortunately, most of those hopes have been dashed, but perhaps none more than the last.

In a recent op-ed for the New York Times, Dr. OSTROM and colleagues from President Biden's

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