COVID has caused more than 7 million confirmed deaths (and estimates of the actual total go well past 20 million).
Here鈥檚 the even worse news: It wasn鈥檛 the truly devastating pandemic epidemiologists have feared for decades.
But here鈥檚 the good news: We learned every possible lesson from COVID, and now we鈥檙e utterly prepared for the next big pandemic that鈥檚 inevitably barreling towards us.
No. Wait. Maybe I鈥檝e gotten that last bit wrong.
This hour, Michael Osterholm, founding director of the , joins us to talk about the dreaded potential 鈥渂ig one鈥� and what we need to do to be ready.
GUEST:
- Michael T. Osterholm: Founding director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota and the co-author of
MUSIC FEATURED (in order):
- - Little Feat
- - Warren Zevon
- - Tower of Power
- - The Nields
- - Jill Sobule
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