Honest Talk About the Origins of COVID-19

Five years after the opening of the pandemic, Andrew Noymer, epidemiologist and population health scientist, speaks about the origins of Sars-coV-2, the strain of coronavirus that causes COVID-19.  Following the publication of his recent op/ed piece in the O C Register he offers his best explanation of the lab leak being the most likely source. He is associate professor in the department of population health & disease prevention at the Joe C Wen School of Population & Health, University of California, Irvine.  His expertise is in historical epidemiology, infectious disease mortality, and public health demography.  During the covid pandemic he was a leading interpreter of covid to the public, working with print journalists and broadcasters.  With this expertise, Andrew weighs in as well about the federal authorities have managed messaging around the pandemic. 

A link to Andrew's op/ed piece in the Register: https://www.ocregister.com/2025/03/12/covid-likely-came-from-a-lab-and-it-matters-enormously-to-prevent-another-pandemic/

Music credits: Alexis Lombre, "A Blues in Tyne"