{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"As 'Show Me the Science' turns 2, we look back at 2 years of a pandemic","description":"But for this episode, we\u2019re sticking with COVID-19. In 2020, when the pandemic shut down much of the country, our very first guest on \u201cShow Me the Science\u201d was Steven J. Lawrence, MD, a professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases. He also was our first guest of our second season of podcast episodes last year. And we\u2019ve brought him back again, for year three. As the pandemic first gripped the St. Louis area, Lawrence was worried whether there would be adequate ventilators, ICU beds and medical staff to care for patients with COVID-19. A year later, in spring 2021, he was touting vaccines as a potential way out of the pandemic. Now, after having to deal with the delta and omicron variants of the virus, and with new worries about an even more infectious version of omicron, Lawrence has thoughts on moving forward as well as what people got right and wrong during the first two years of the pandemic. He also has some ideas regarding where we may be headed. The podcast, \u201cShow Me the Science,\u201d is produced by the Office of Medical Public Affairs at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. ","author_name":"Show Me the Science","author_url":"https:\/\/medicine.wustl.edu\/news\/show-me-the-science-podcast\/","html":"