Interview: Epidemiologist Caitlin Rivers on interpreting COVID-19, other disease data

In this 2-way episode of Still Here: Co-host Betsy Ladyzhets interviews Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health and author of the popular newsletter, Force of Infection, as well as the book Crisis Averted: The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks. Rivers discussed which data sources she relies on for her trend updates, interpreting data for day-to-day decisions, questions she still has about COVID-19 patterns, how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s data pages could better acknowledge Long COVID, ongoing bird flu concerns, and more.The transcript of this Q&A is available ⁠⁠⁠on The Sick Times' website⁠⁠⁠. -Mentioned in this episode (in order of appearance):The Sick Times: Q&A: Caitlin RiversAdditional audio in this episode: Rude Mechanical Orchestra: ⁠⁠Which Side Are You On?⁠⁠ (orig. Florence Reece)