Episode 140: Challenges of the Past, Present, and Future

Abstract

In this episode, Dr. Osterholm and Chris Dall discuss the state of the pandemic in the U.S. and around the world as they reflect on infectious disease challenges of the past, present, and future. Dr. Osterholm also shares his thoughts on the CDC's new vaccine recommendations and answers an ID query about outdoor transmission of SARS-CoV-2. "CDC advisers make universal COVID vaccine recommendation," Schnirring, CIDRAP News (https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cdc-advisers-make-universal-covid-vaccine-recommendation); "Closing in on Zero: Adapting to Complexity and Risk on the Path to End Polio," GPEI Independent Monitoring Board (https://polioeradication.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/22nd-Report-of-The-Independent-Monitoring-Board-IMB.pdf); "U.S. STI Epidemic Showed No Signs of Slowing in 2021 - Cases Continued to Escalate," CDC Newsroom (https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2023/s0411-sti.html); "Global Tuberculosis Report 2022," WHO (https://www.who.int/teams/global-tuberculosis-programme/tb-reports/global-tuberculosis-report-2022); "Outbreak of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis - Kansas, 2021-2022," CDC MMWR (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7235a4.htm?s_cid=mm7235a4_w); "Outdoor Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and Other Respiratory Viruses: A Systematic Review," Bulfone et al, J Infect Dis. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33249484/); "A Timeline of HIV and AIDS, hiv.gov (https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/history/hiv-and-aids-timeline/#year-1981)