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Dr. Michael Osterholm. Photo: Stuart Isett for Fortune Brainstorm Health Michael Osterholm has spent the past year as afraid of getting Covid as anyone else. “You know how many times I’ve woken up in the morning and said, I wonder if today’s the day I could get infected?” One of the world’s leading epidemiologists, he is reassured by the fact that he doesn’t go anywhere—“I’m the guy who has the same tank of gas in his car that he had three months ago”—but he, too, is desperate to be done with the pandemic. “I miss my grandkids,” he told Intelligencer from his Minneapolis-area home, his assured voice turning wistful. “My God , I miss my grandkids.” Osterholm, 67, is the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota and has spent the past four decades studying epidemics, but he became nationally famous a year ago for his stark predictions during the first shocking wave of the pandemic in the U.S. “In April, I said, ‘These … [Read more...] about The Pandemic’s Dr. Doom Bets It All

Rep. Ayanna Pressley Ayanna Pressley Pressley says image of Black custodial staff cleaning up Capitol after Jan. 6 riot 'haunts' her DeJoy apologizes for mail delays while defending Postal Service changes DeJoy set for grilling by House Oversight panel MORE (D-Mass.) said on Wednesday that she is still haunted by images that went viral after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol showing Black custodial staff cleaning up the mess left behind by a mostly white mob, saying the visual was “as metaphorical as it is literal.” “There are many images from the day, including the noose being erected on the west lawn of the capitol, people brandishing trump flags confederate flags, that haunt me,” Pressley said in a discussion with The 19th’s editor-at-large Errin Haines on Wednesday afternoon. “But the one that resonates with me the most is that of the all Black custodial staff cleaning up the mess of this violent white supremacist mob so that we could continue to … [Read more...] about Pressley says image of Black custodial staff cleaning up Capitol after Jan. 6 riot ‘haunts’ her