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Michael T. Osterholm, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a prominent public health scientist and a nationally recognized biosecurity expert in the United States.

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The next 14 weeks I think will be the worst of the pandemic, people don’t want to hear that, but if we look at what these variants are doing, particularly this one from the United Kingdom, and see what it did in Europe, see what it’s done in the Middle East, it’s now beginning to start that here in the U.S. We are going to see that unfold.

– Michael Osterholm

Found on FOX News 15 days ago Health

We have got a Category 10 hurricane staring at us. People don't understand that.

– Michael Osterholm

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

People assume more is better.

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Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

What we can expect to see in the course of the next, I think, six to 14 weeks, is something that we haven't even come close to experiencing yet.

– Michael Osterholm

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

I worry desperately in the next six to 12 weeks, we're going to see a situation with this pandemic unlike anything we've seen yet to date, that is really a challenge that I don't think most people realize yet.

– Michael Osterholm

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

I worry desperately in the next six to 12 weeks we're going to see a situation with this pandemic unlike anything we've seen yet to date, this will happen, we are going to see a major increase in cases, the challenge is how many.

– Michael Osterholm

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

The difference is going to be,' Are we going to react now or later ?' do we put the brakes on after the car's wrapped around the tree, or we try to put the brakes on before we leave the intersection ?

– Michael Osterholm

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

We have to understand we're in a very dangerous place. People have to stop swapping air, it's just that simple.

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Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

I worry that the Thanksgiving Day surge will then just add into what will become the Christmas surge, which will then make this one seem as if it wasn't so bad.

– Michael Osterholm

Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

It's just that simple.

– Michael Osterholm

Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

We are going to see our hospitals literally on the verge of collapse.

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Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

It takes much more than a declaration. It really needed follow through.

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Found on CNN 4 months ago Top News

Long-term care is, unfortunately, an indicator of what's happening in Mark Parkinson community [ at large ] -- meaning that as much as Mark Parkinson try to bubble them from the virus in the community, it's a very vulnerable location, because Mark Parkinson have people who work there [ going in and out ], as well as family and friends of those who live there.

– Michael Osterholm

Found on CNN 6 months ago Health

At this point, we don't really have a national plan that really puts together what we're trying to do. We have 50 different states, the District of Columbia, the territories, all kind of with their own plan, we're at 70 % of the number of cases today that we were at the very height of the pandemic cases in early April, and yet I don't see any kind of a' This is where we need to go, this is what we need to do to get there' kind of effort, and that's one of our challenges.

– Michael Osterholm

Found on CNN 8 months ago Top News

If we could identify super spreaders early that would help but at this point we don't have any reasonable way to do that, there's no big double S on their forehead that says' Super Spreader' so that we can go find them. And that's the challenge.

– Michael Osterholm

Found on CNN 8 months ago Health

Understanding that the whole thesis of contact tracing may just fall on this very issue [ of super spreaders ], if you have a small number of cases, you can clearly try to contact trace all of them, and you're not wondering if they're super spreaders or not. With many thousands of cases, you're always going to be trying to determine : what are the highest priority ? If you don't have a sense of who the super spreaders are, there's no way you can [ factor ] that in.

– Michael Osterholm

Found on CNN 8 months ago Health

This damn virus is going to keep going until it infects everybody it possibly can, it surely wont slow down until it hits 60 to 70%.

– Michael Osterholm

Found on FOX News 9 months ago Science

We have to understand that we're riding this tiger, we're not directing it.

– Michael Osterholm

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

Think how much pain, suffering, death and economic disruption we've had in getting from 5% to 15% of the population infected and hopefully protected, wake up, world. Do not believe the rhetoric that says this is going to go away.

– Michael Osterholm

Found on CNN 10 months ago Health

This thing's not going to stop until it infects 60 to 70 % of people, the idea that this is going to be done soon defies microbiology.

– Michael Osterholm

Found on CNN 10 months ago Health

Singapore's approach has been by far one of the very best, what they are really showing the rest of the world is that this is just a difficult virus to beat back and keep down.

– Michael Osterholm

Found on Reuters 11 months ago Top News

At the very beginning of the outbreak, we had many questions about how transmission of this virus occurred. And unfortunately, we saw a number of people taking very firm stances about it was happening this way or it wasn't happening this way. And as we have continued to learn how transmission occurs with this outbreak, it is clear that many of those early statements were not correct, this is time for straight talk.

– Michael Osterholm

Found on CNN 11 months ago Top News

We now know that asymptomatic transmission likely [plays] an important role in spreading this virus.

– Michael Osterholm

Found on CNN 11 months ago Top News

This is time for straight talk.

– Michael Osterholm

Found on CNN 11 months ago Top News

I think clearly the time has come to take these steps.

– Michael Osterholm

Found on CNN 12 months ago Health

She enjoys bridge and William Schaffner's an important part of her life and William Schaffner keeps her mentally active, but she's going to give William Schaffner up for a while.

– Michael Osterholm

Found on CNN 12 months ago Health

I seriously doubt that the Chinese public officials have any data supporting this statement, i know of no evidence in 17 years of working with coronaviruses -- SARS and MERS -- where anyone has been found to be infectious during their incubation period.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Health

The strain isn’t in the damn vaccine, and it’s giving cross protection.

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Found on FOX News 3 years ago Health

So, by about 2008, we started to see the vaccine rates drop as the word got through the Somali community that autism was linked to measles vaccination, in the years since then, Andrew Wakefield has actually been brought in several times to the Somali community here in Minnesota to actually give presentations supporting this information. ... His work has been retracted.

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Found on CNN 3 years ago U.S.

Measles is by far one of the most infectious of all the infectious disease agents we deal with, if you get a major outbreak started in a community, like the Somali-Americans, the sparks fly out of that fire and then start forest fires around the state, and that's what we're concerned about today.

– Michael Osterholm

Found on CNN 3 years ago U.S.

Between 2000 and roughly 2008, the Somali community in Minnesota actually had some of the highest vaccination rates for 2-year-olds of any population in the state.

– Michael Osterholm

Found on CNN 3 years ago U.S.

When cases like this occur, it's critical that there be rapid epidemiological investigations to determine the likely location where the mosquito exposure occurred, only with that can you identify the breeding sites and eliminate them.

– Michael Osterholm

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

The path forward is not quite so simple, and many unresolved challenges and questions remain.

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Found on Reuters 4 years ago Health

These patients may require extensive medical support for months to many years to come.

– Michael Osterholm

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Health

That's like saying you don't want to call the fire department because you're afraid the trucks will create a disturbance.

– Michael Osterholm

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Health

No one really knows what is going on here with the flu strains and the match using the current methods.

– Michael Osterholm

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Company News

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