PBS: Schuchat &amp; Osterholm Take Questions

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As part of the debut of the PBS Newshour documentary Anatomy of a Pandemic – Rear Admiral Ann Schuchat M.D., Director of the CDC National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) and Michael T. Osterholm, Director of CIDRAP at the University of Minnesota – answer a number of viewer questions regarding the documentary and the pandemic virus.

Bios From the PBS website:

Rear Admiral Anne Schuchat is the director of Centers for Disease Control's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and has worked at CDC since 1988 on immunization and infectious diseases. Prior to her current appointment, she served as the director of CDC's National Immunization Program (NIP); acting director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID); chief of the Respiratory Diseases Branch at NCID.

Mike Osterholm, PhD, MPH, is director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), director of the NIH-supported Minnesota Center of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance (MCEIRS) within CIDRAP, a professor in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, and an adjunct professor in the Medical School, University of Minnesota.