‘Covid-19 Is Raging Like an Intense Forest Fire’
A conversation with Stanford epidemiologist Steven Goodman on the perpetual pandemic
“We’re not done with this,” warns Stanford epidemiologist Steven Goodman about the Covid-19 pandemic. I believe my brother.
In March 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic was spreading and lockdowns were being imposed, I asked Steven to join me on The Vermont Conversation, the radio show and podcast that I host, to share publicly what he was telling me privately about this novel virus.
While former President Trump assured us that the coronavirus would “miraculously go away” with the arrival of warm weather, Steven warned that what was coming would be “an impending catastrophe.” He explained the cold calculus of exponential growth and accurately predicted the calamity that soon unfolded.
Steven Goodman, MD, MHS, PhD, is an associate dean at Stanford Medical School, where he is also a professor of epidemiology and population health and of medicine.
Today, a fourth wave of Covid-19 is sweeping the country, driven by the highly transmissible Delta variant. While vaccinated Americans are cautiously savoring a return to normalcy, a “pandemic of the unvaccinated” is raging, as nearly all new deaths are among the unvaccinated. Yet…
