Ep 103 Osterholm Update COVID 19: Words Matter

In "Words Matter," Dr. Osterholm and Chris Dall discuss the trajectory of the pandemic in the U.S. and around the world, COVID "relapses" in patients taking Paxlovid, the significance of recent comments made by government officials regarding the current state of the pandemic, and shares a beautiful place from one of our listeners.

[scrubjay]

Thank you for a clear and honest appraisal of the status of the pandemic. As a scientist, I appreciate someone who sticks to the facts and evidence. I was attending two group therapy sessions a week before the pandemic hit--one for depression and the other for anxiety. I also was seeing a therapist at the same clinic. As soon as covid hit, the group therapy sessions ended--I had made some friends among the attendees but because of privacy regulations, I could not even find out if they were okay and none of us had shared phone numbers. My therapy sessions were limited to phone calls and my therapist quit a month later to have a baby. My second therapist, whom I knew from the group sessions, also quit before I could even begin. To anyone else out there having similar problems with managing their depression, please hang in there and don't give up hope! You are not alone in your struggles.

[traiandanciu]

If(?) SARS COV2 better replicate at low tissue temperature, use of antypiretics can increase viral replication?
At TWiV Nr 659 at min 29 Christian Drosten indicate low tissue temperature better to replicate SARS COV2.
Have new SARS COV2 variants, higher, or lower restrictive temperature?

[lucid]

Thank you so much for your podcasts and updates. They have meant a lot to me and have really been helpful during these past few years. I have to tell you though that I am one of the 5% who get depressed by too much daylight! That’s OK though I’m perfectly happy for other people to enjoy it.🌻

[alm]

Six months = 1 Friedman Unit.
Didn't often work out well for him back then.

[accountinglavidalaguna]

Thank you Dr. Osterholm and team! I have appreciated every one of your episodes through this!!

[ARFirstRaptor]

Great job Dr. And host for your service to the world.

Some folks in the comments:
Sorry to say, people who just talk nonsense about science without any logical reasoning fall under one category. People under this category lack education, readily believe in hearsay and conspiracies, lack basic evidence based research analysis and show poor analytical skills. Basically, this category are not intelligent. Their goal in life is to work some job, eat, shit, sleep and wait for magic to happen to make them better than working on themselves.
Unfortunately, atleast 30% of the country belongs to this category.

[calistamitsy]

Dr. O., Chris, and the team, thanks again for this segment packed with new developments about the status of our dealings with this pandemic… still to be determined…
Appreciate all you experts in trying to keep us, the public, safe and healthy.

[traiandanciu]

If SARS COV2 better replicate at low tissue temperature heat of upper respiratory tract by, ,mask wearing, , diminish, theoreticaly, SARS COV2 replication at this level

[LpCh]

Stop hiding comments. You can't hide forever. People will eventually figure things out, sooner or later.

[jessman]

This may have been the best and most balanced Osterholm podcast to date. I'm grateful that we are finally recognizing the mental health issues. But I don't understand why we never considered that during the extreme lockdowns, school closures, and mask mandates. It was rather obvious these things would have dire consequences.

[watershedbarbie]

People are starting to travel. Cases will go up, not down.

[Jamie]

LP78ch comes on here every week to troll this podcast. That's his life which makes him less important than a potato. In fact, he's essentially a potato in a MAGA cap.

Don't be like LP78ch.

[timmyj]

This podcast has and always will be a delusional far left fear based exaggerated take on the pandemic. Dr. John Campbell would be a channel that has 1000x more merit, accuracy, and credibility.

[LpCh]

You can't hide the TRUTH forever.

[LpCh]

How many more lies are you prepared to tell the world, Osterholm?