Getting to and Sustaining the Next Normal: A Roadmap for Living with COVID

COVID new normal
Monday, March 21, 2022

Michael Osterholm, Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) worked with 22 other health, science, and policy experts to author a major report detailing how the U.S. can control COVID transmission and severity, prepare for new variants, and create a new normal. Getting to and Sustaining the Next Normal: A Roadmap for Living with COVID lays out a 12-part plan; proposals include “increase surge production capacity for at-home rapid tests to 1 billion per month,” and “support the development of new, more effective therapeutics, especially multi-drug oral antivirals, and next generation vaccines, especially mucosal and pancoronavirus designs.” The project was led by Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Vice Provost for Global Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania. Drs. Osterholm and Emanuel will join other experts to discuss the new report during the Consortium’s “COVID Controversies” lecture series on Tuesday, April 26. CIDRAP is a member center of the Consortium on Law and Values.