Michael T. Osterholm

We're sort of talking about it vaguely.

And by the way, this really terrific expert named Mike Osterholm in Minnesota, has suggested that we don't even use the term social distancing, that we use physical distancing.

And he makes the point that we don't actually want to be socially distant.

We want to try to use whatever is available, like Zoom and FaceTime and whatever, phone calls, to try to sustain and amplify our social connections.

Now, normally they say it's only when you come in contact with body fluids that this virus is spread.

According to Michael Osterholm, you can sneeze because you can also have your lungs infected.

And if you start coughing or sneezing, then it's possible, theoretically, to spread it to...

He was giving this talk to a bunch of students in Minnesota, I think is where his...

University of Minnesota.

Yeah, Michael Osterholm is the head of SIDRAP.

SIDRAP's a great place to go for health news.

Yeah, it's the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy.

Hello, and welcome to the Osterholm Update, a podcast about infectious diseases and public health, featuring Dr. Michael Osterholm.

Dr. Osterholm 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. Osterholm draws on over 50 years of experience in infectious disease epidemiology to provide straight talk on the latest infectious disease outbreaks, counter misinformation and disinformation about vaccines, and distill the complex and ever-evolving public health threats facing our world.

And if they try to escape, thinking that they will be safer, say they've got a relative or a friend in a nearby province or, uh, across the border with another sta- uh, country, then they can spread it.

Because I remember reading, I think it was Michael Osterholm who was talking, uh, about a week or two ago about how there seem to be, um, cases of silent carriers.

In other words, they do eventually get sick, but they don't get sick for several weeks.

Mm-hmm.

... you can't open the newspaper without seeing how the CDC is struggling for money, uh, locally.

For example, Mike Osterholm's operation at the University of Minnesota is always threatening with being defunded, and they're, they're challenged to keep up their research and their information.

And it ...

But they had $20 million to distribute to, to Saara Noor's company for consulting work?

Hello, and welcome to the Osterholm Update, a podcast about infectious diseases and public health, featuring Dr. Michael Osterholm.

Dr. Osterholm 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. Osterholm draws on over 50 years of experience in infectious disease epidemiology to provide straight talk on the latest infectious disease outbreaks, counter misinformation and disinformation about vaccines, and distill the complex and ever-evolving public health threats facing our world.