Dr Michael Osterholm

director of the University of Minnesota's center for infectious disease research and policy and appointee to Biden's 2020 transition Covid-19 advisory board

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Quoted in the press, across 2 topics since 18 Feb 2026

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Dr Michael Osterholm: key facts

Kind of voice: Academic
Role: director of the University of Minnesota's center for infectious disease research and policy and appointee to Biden's 2020 transition Covid-19 advisory board
Quoted on: Public health & prevention, Long Covid
Press coverage: Quoted in the press
Most recently quoted: 30 Oct 2026
First quoted: 18 Feb 2026

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04 The signal · where Dr Michael Osterholm sits on long covid

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Dr Charles ShepherdClinicianTrustee and Honorary Medical Adviser, The ME AssociationLeading
Professor Dmitry PshezhetskiyAcademicProfessorial Research Fellow, Norwich Medical School, University of East AngliaLeading
Dr. Ewan HunterBusiness leaderChief Data Officer, Oxford BioDynamics PlcLeading
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Carolyn Chew-GrahamAcademicProfessor of general practice research at Keele University
Dr. Jie SunAcademicUniversity of Virginia
Dr Michael OsterholmAcademicdirector of the University of Minnesota's center for infectious disease research and policy and appointee to Biden's 2020 transition Covid-19 advisory board
Dr. Thomas WisniewskiClinicianprofessor of neurology, pathology and psychiatry and director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at NYU Langone Health
Benjamin LevyAcademicgastroenterologist at the University of Chicago

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Where Dr Michael Osterholm has been quoted

5 dead as Amish country measles horror explodes past 1,350 casesindependent.co.uk · 30 Oct 2026
Long Covid is still here. I know – my life came to a stop because of ittheguardian.com · 18 Feb 2026

How we found the articles that name Dr Michael Osterholm: we searched news for these terms, by topic. Terms for 2 topics

Public health & prevention

public health
preventative healthcare
prevention agenda
health prevention
obesity strategy
childhood obesity
smoking cessation
smoke-free

Also searched with “public health” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for Public health & prevention

Long Covid

long covid
post-covid syndrome
long-haul covid
ME/CFS
chronic fatigue syndrome
post-viral
long covid clinic

Also searched with “long covid” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag. Every term for Long Covid

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“Measles is really the lion king of infectious diseases when it comes to transmission.”

Director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy · Public health & prevention · independent.co.uk · 30 Oct 2026 · Read the article

“How many people are living a compromised life, but they don't recognize why? In some ways, [the difficulty in diagnosing long Covid is] also about the concept of mental health. Because long-term chronic compromise leaves one to begin to wonder: how much of this is in my head?”

director of the University of Minnesota's center for infectious disease research and policy and appointee to Biden's 2020 transition Covid-19 advisory board · Long Covid · theguardian.com · 18 Feb 2026 · Read the article

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