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TWiV 647: Testing is our way out of this crisis

In TWiV 647, children under 10 do transmit SARS-CoV-2, why hydroxychloroquine does not work for treating COVID-19, scale-up of diagnostic testing, explanation of LAMP testing, and listener questions.

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TWiV 648: Life is for learning

Daniel Griffin provides a clinical report on COVID-19 in TWiV 648, followed by a review of the findings that children shed as much SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA from the respiratory tract as older patients, the lineage giving rise to SARS-CoV-2 has been circulating in bats in China for decades, and answers to listener questions.

For me, the SARS-CoV-2 lineage paper is the standout piece of science in this episode. Some really solid evolutionary virology.

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TWiV 650: Virology is infinite

In this mid-week episode of Earth’s Virology Podcast, TWiV 650, the team analyze SARS-CoV-2 transmission among youths at a summer camp, adaptation to mice by passage, the importance of T cells for recovery from COVID-19, and listener questions.

I especially enjoyed the immunology paper discussing the impairment of immune responses by SARS-CoV-2 infection.

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TWiV 651: FDA rules with Denise Esposito

In TWiV 651 Daniel Griffin provides a clinical report on COVID-19, then former FDA Chief of Staff to the Commissioner Denise Esposito joins us to explain the challenges in approving vaccines, antiviral drugs, and diagnostic tests during a pandemic, followed by answers to listener questions.

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  • Template for at-home, OTC diagnostic tests (FDA) 1:33:37
  • Postdoctoral position in Prasad laboratory (pdf) 1:39:40
  • Rapidtests.org 1:40:46
  • Masks are cool, Miasma t-shirts (CafePress) 1:41:28
  • Letters read on TWiV 651 23:52, 1:44:49
  • Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
 
TWiV 652: The rules of contagion with Adam Kucharski

In TWiV 652 Epidemiologist Adam Kucharski joins TWiV to discuss SARS-CoV-2, including R0, incubation period, herd immunity, asymptomatic infection, superspreaders, children as drivers of pandemics, and how this one will end.

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TWiV 653: Back to school with COVID-19

In TWiV 653 Alfonso, Ken, Mary and Janet join TWiV to explain their modeling of school reopening strategies during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

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TWiV 654: TWiVering with excitement

In TWiV 654 Daniel Griffin provides a clinical report on COVID-19 and the convalescent plasma trial, then we answer listener questions about the Russian vaccine, choir practice, face masks (wear them!), Mina testing, transmission, and much more.

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TWiV 655: Minority health with Robert Fullilove

In TWiV 655 sociomedical scientist Robert Fullilove joins TWiV to discuss disparities in minority health; FDA announces an EUA on Yale’s SalivaDirect, protection of the upper and respiratory tract of mice after intranasal inoculation with an adenovirus-vectored SARS-CoV-2 spike gene, and listener questions.

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TWiV 656: See, it can be done!

In TWiV 656 Daniel Griffin provides a clinical report on COVID-19, surgeons Lisa Smith and David Bruce detail how they have helped their Chattanooga community during the pandemic, then we discuss racial and ethnic disparities among COVID-19 cases, no more premarket review of laboratory developed tests by FDA; and emergency use authorization of convalescent plasma is on hold.

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TWiV 657: Shane Crotty on SARS-CoV-2 immunity

In TWiV 657 immunologist Shane Crotty joins TWiV to discuss the antibody and T cell responses to infection with SARS-CoV-2, followed by answers to listener questions.

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TWiV 658: Everyone needs a H.E.A.R.T.

In TWiV 658 Daniel Griffin provides a clinical report on COVID-19, then we discuss CDC softening testing guidelines, Moderna vaccine phase I results in older people, Abbott’s $5 rapid antigen test, and reinfection with a distinct SARS-CoV-2 isolate, followed by listener email.

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TWiV 659: Sloppy coronavirus immunity with Christian Drosten

In TWiV 659 Christian Drosten returns to provide an update on the COVID-19 situation in Germany, and general thoughts on testing, immunity, vaccines, therapeutics, epidemiology, reopening schools, and what will happen this fall.

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TWiV 660: In case of emergency finish the trial

In TWiV 660 Daniel Griffin provides a clinical report on COVID-19, then the gang discuss the decline of virus-specific bone marrow B cells within a year after influenza vaccination, the push to release SARS-CoV-2 vaccines before completion of phase 3 trials, and absence of evidence for infectious virus in aerosols.

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TWiV 661: SWAG with Ralph Baric

In TWiV 661 one of my favourite coronavirologists, Ralph Baric, returns to provide an update on the COVID-19 resurgence in the US, monoclonal antibodies, antiviral drugs, vaccines, immunity and reinfection, reopening schools, and what will happen this fall.

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TWiV 663: The joy of vax

In TWiV 663 Daniel Griffin provides a clinical report on COVID-19, including vaccines, Alan summarizes a vaccine webinar on the most advanced US trials, a nidovirus from snapping turtles, longevity of memory B cells in recovered patients, and listener email.

"The British people can face any misfortune with fortitude & buoyancy as long as they are convinced that those in charge of their affairs are not deceiving them, or are not dwelling in a fool’s paradise."
— Winston Churchill

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TWiV 664: TWiV is for the dogs

In the mid-week TWiV edition, 664, does it matter that SARS-CoV-2 is mutating, seasonal coronavirus immunity is short-lived, another bogus claim that the virus was produced in a laboratory (it came from Nature), and answers to listener questions.

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  • Coronavirus is mutating (Nature) 9:29
  • Seasonal CoV immunity is short (Nat Med) 18:16
  • Sorry, no link to the fake science document! 40:44
  • Letters read on TWiV 664 1:08:02
  • Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
 
TWiV 665: This half-week in coronavirology

In TWiV 665 Daniel Griffin provides a clinical report on COVID-19, superspreading potential of SARS-CoV-2 in Hong Kong, structure of virion glycoprotein of a commmon cold coronavirus reveals changes driven by prolonged circulation in humans, and listener email.

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TWiV 666: A far-UVC light bulb went off for David Brenner

In episode 666 David Brenner joins TWiV to explain how far-UVC lights could provide protection from SARS-CoV-2 and other airborne viruses in public places, solutions to face mask fogging, transmission during airplane flights, and listener questions.

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TWiV 667: Building a better virus trap

In TWiC 667 Daniel Griffin provides a clinical report on COVID-19, review of the phase I and II trials of the Russian prime-boost vaccine, a mouse model that recapitulates age-dependent severe disease, and listener questions.

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TWiV 668: Mice, bats, and coronaviruses with Tony Schountz

In episode 668 Tony Schountz joins TWiV to explain the work of his laboratory showing that deer mice can be infected with and transmit SARS-CoV-2, and how his colony of Jamaican fruit bats is being used to understand their response to virus infections.

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