Just as many people felt the COVID-19 pandemic might finally be ending, it has reared its ugly head once again. As summer approaches and more people are forgoing mask-wearing, social distancing and other COVID mitigation strategies, communities across New Hampshire and the United States are seeing new surges of the coronavirus. Furthermore, in a recently published paper, Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and one of the nation’s leading COVID experts, and his co-authors stated that herd immunity against COVID is now an unattainable goal.
On the latest episode of Dartmouth Health’s “The Cure Podcast,” host Jessica L. Swain, MBA, MLT, CIC, system director of infection prevention for Dartmouth Health, spoke with Michael S. Calderwood, MD, MPH, chief quality officer at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, about where we are now with COVID-19. In the episode, Calderwood shares his insights on studies shared at the recently concluded Society of Healthcare Epidemiology annual conference.
Listen to episode 18 of “The Cure Podcast.”
“I think we need to think of the interventions to battle this pandemic as a continuum. It’s not black and white,” Calderwood said. “We’ve learned to live with some risks, but we also understand that severe risks are preventable, and so we need to be able to give people choices that allow them not to make a choice that is either this or that, but to pick, and say, ‘We’re going to do this set of interventions, and we’re going to accept some risk by not doing other interventions.’”
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