Two institutions are coming together to create an alternative to the CDC’s vaunted Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ...

MINNEAPOLIS --As the monkeypox virus quickly spreads in the U.S., President Biden has appointed a White House coordinator to oversee the response. Daily cases are doubling roughly every week, and have ...

Michael Osterholm, University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy director, was driving to the airport the morning of Dec. 30, 2019, when his cellphone rang. A colleague was ...

In a sobering interview, the respected infectious disease expert expresses concern over our willful deconstruction of parts of our vaccine infrastructure in Donald Trump’s second term—especially ...

Plenty of concern and criticism from one of the country's top infectious disease experts over Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s decision to pull a $500 billion worth of ...

Three years into the pandemic, Dr. Michael Osterholm finally became one of the statistics he famously projected to the world. Not only did the longtime infectious disease expert become infected with ...

Michael Osterholm is the guy you call when you want to find out if that measles outbreak is going to explode or if humans should be concerned about bird flu. As director of the University of Minnesota ...

On Thursday, Gov. Tim Walz said he plans to repeal Minnesota’s mask mandate by July 1 or once the state reaches a 70% vaccination rate — whichever comes first. COVID-19 restrictions on gatherings and ...

Though COVID-19 in the U.S. has plateaued, uncertainty still surrounds the trajectory of the pandemic and symptoms associated with the virus. Michael Osterholm, PhD, director of the Center for ...

"This is not going to be the last of the need for public health measures." Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, ...