Trevor Bedford is a computational biologist and infectious disease scientist, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He was selected as a recipient of the 2021 MacArthur Fellowship and can be reached on Twitter @trvrb.
When rising cases do not reliably predict hospitalization surges, hitching COVID policies to cases alone is no longer effective policy or good public health.
This expedited episode of The Podcast by KevinMD is a COVID and Omicron update. I interview Jeremy Faust, an emergency physician who can be reached on Twitter @JeremyFaust and on Instagram @JeremySamuelFaust. He also publishes the newsletter, Inside Medicine.
US President Joe Biden said southern Africa's transparency should be "encouraged and applauded," but so far his thanks has taken the form of travel bans.