TWiV reviews the administrations dismantling of the committee that studies pandemic potential, firing of CDC vaccine advisory committee and replacing them with unqualified anti-vaxxers, zoonotic and sustained Mpox spread in Nigeria and Cameroon, and breadth of influenza A antibody cross-reactivity.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Brianne Barker
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Links for this episode
- Support science education at MicrobeTV 3:55
- NIH terminates pandemic preparedness committee (Science) 7:22
- RFK Jr. fires all ACIP members (CNN) 9:31
- RFK Jr. names dubious members of new ACIP (NPR) 11:25
- Zoonotic and sustained Mpox spread in West Africa (Nature) 16:17
- Breadth of influenza A antibody cross-reactivity (Nat Micro) 50:13
- Letters read on TWiV 1227 1:23:10
- Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
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