Katy writes: Hi TWIV team, I’m 6 months pregnant, and while I know that the data so far do not show an increased risk of serious disease in pregnant women, a recent visit to my…
Paulo writes: Hi, Vincent. I guess you might remember me: I am a Virologist/ Professor at the Veterinary College, University of São Paulo, Brazil; I was one of the guests in the 1st TWIV episode…
Bradley writes: Why can’t candidate-vaccines be manufactured in “industrial quantities” prior to passing the tests? If they don’t pass the tests: dump them. Normally this would be wasteful but not in the Current crisis. Martin…
Eric Delwart writes: Hi Vincent As you’ve reported there Is definitely SARS CoV 2 RNA in plasma from some Covid-19 patients. Blood donors must be afebrile. Whether those who develop fever a few days post…
Dana writes: Good Morning Dr. Griffin – I heard that an Optum Clinic is now using a short Q tip for anterior nasal swab, rather than the longer deeper nasal swab for Covid-19 testing. Certainly…
Frank writes: This is Frank from Shickshinny PA. Why are we not using antisera from recovered patients with SARS-CoV2 to treat those newly infected or seriously ill? It seems this might reduce the viral load…
Sindre writes: Hello, new listener from Norway here. Just want to link you guys some very good visualization of European CDC data. The page is updated on a day to day basis. Thought you guys…
This Week in Virology TWiV 590: COVID-19 and coronavirus update – we have mail Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Aired 8 March 2020 VR: From MicrobeTV, this is TWIV – This Week…
Chia-Wei writes: Hello TWIVer, I want to make a quick comments on Kathy’s questions on PPE. She mentioned there are huge Chinese characters in front of the doc’s PPE and wondering what they are. Those…
Oliver writes: If you haven’t seen this yet, it is the largest data set published so far from China on n-CoV-whatever-its-name-is-now (72,314 cases). It has more detailed age distribution data and epi. curves than I’ve…
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