Episode 153: Good News in a COVID-Indifferent World

Abstract

In "Good News in a COVID-Indifferent World," Dr. Osterholm and Chris Dall discuss the national and international COVID trends, the latest research on long COVID, and antibiotic-resistant Shigella. Dr. Osterholm also shares the latest "This Week in Public Health History" segment and interviews members of the podcast team. "Iron dysregulation and inflammatory stress erythropoiesis associates with long-term outcome of COVID-19" by Hanson et al., Nature Immunology (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-024-01754-8); "How Americans view the coronavirus, COVID-19 vaccines amid declining levels of concern" by Tyson & Pasquini, Pew Research Center (https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2024/03/07/how-americans-view-the-coronavirus-covid-19-vaccines-amid-declining-levels-of-concern/); "Spike in extensively drug-resistant Shigella cases reported in UK, Europe by Dall, CIDRAP News (https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobial-stewardship/spike-extensively-drug-resistant-shigella-cases-reported-uk-europe); "CDC warns of increase in extensively drug-resistant shigellosis" by Dall, CIDRAP News (https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobial-stewardship/cdc-warns-increase-extensively-drug-resistant-shigellosis); "Superbugs & You podcast" (https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobial-stewardship/superbugs-you); "The man in the iron lung: by McRobbie, The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/may/26/last-iron-lung-paul-alexander-polio-coronavirus).