Welcome to Season 2 Episode 18 of Upstream Downstream. Here to talk with  Bianca Ison is Dr. Clay Marsh. He is the vice president and executive dean for health sciences at West Virginia University, a member of the board of WVU Medicine, and has served under Governor Jim Justice as the West Virginia COVID Czar. Today he and Bianca will be discussing the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus, the state of hospitals today, and the potential future of this pandemic.

We would like to thank our guest Dr. Clay Marsh for joining this discussion. We would also like to thank our producer, Sarah Burke, and our assistant producer and editor, Bianca Ison.