Evolutionary epidemiologist Rob Wallace hosts this week’s “COVID This Week”. In this episode we cover the state of global COVID, the state of U.S. COVID, and the new XBB.1.5 sublineage that emerged here in the United States. In the light of Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest on the football field in Cincinnati, we also touch on the impact of COVID-19 on young people, particularly COVID’s cardiac damage.