Daniel Griffin provides a clinical report on COVID-19, Kathleen Crowley explains the role of Environmental Health & Safety departments, update on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in farmed mink, and the presence of pre-existing antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 in unexposed individuals.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker

Guests: Daniel Griffin and Kathleen A. Crowley

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DicksonOSIRIS-REx | NASA
BrianneVirtual Science Museum Tours
AlanRing Fit Adventure
RichBUGSS Baltimore Underground Science Space
VincentTrilobite glassworks

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Gina and JoeCOVID Fan Tutte

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Mady, Fiona, and David join TWiV to discuss patients with long-term COVID and similarities and differences with ME/CFS.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker

Guests: Mady Hornig, Fiona Lowenstein, and David Tuller

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Daniel Griffin provides a clinical report on COVID-19, Slovlakia’s plan to test all adults for SARS-CoV-2 infection, viral variants arising in Danish mink and their potential threat to humans, why it is unethical to carry out challenge trials, Nipah virus dynamics in bats and spillovers into humans, and direct cardiac damage by spike-mediated cardiomyocyte fusion.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker

Guests: Daniel Griffin and Amy Rosenfeld

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DicksonCNN News
AmyI voted and Grace for President
AlanThe Story of More by Hope Jahren
RichOSIRIS-REx and 101955 Bennu
VincentThe Vexed Muddler

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Nels joins TWiV to reveal the discovery of a picornavirus of zebrafish by measuring immune responses in the host, genome sequence analysis of the White House COVID-19 outbreak, and a six-fold higher SARS-CoV-2 exposure rate than reported cases in German children.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guest: Nels Elde

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Kathy –  Why art is important and Tagging an asteroid
RichVendee Globe
VincentPrePubMed

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Daniel Griffin provides a clinical report on COVID-19, then we discuss rapid deployment of SARS-CoV-2 testing by research laboratories in San Francisco, longitudinal observation of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 in patients, and listener questions on vaccines, loss of smell, face masks, and more.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker

Guest: Daniel Griffin

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DicksonComedy Wildlife Photography
BrianneEd Yong – Science reporting during a pandemic
AlanTree Story by Valerie Trouet
RichVaccine Investigation and Online Information Network
VincentWearing is Caring

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In this episode we explain how regions of the human genome associated with severe COVID-19 are identified, the finding that one of these regions was inherited from Neanderthals, and prolonged SARS-CoV-2 reproduction in an immunocompromised patient.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler and Brianne Barker

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BrianneKids Meet a Virologist
Kathy –  Harvard glass marine invertebrates 3D online
RichChernobyl fungi
VincentArtologica

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JustinTotally Under Control

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Daniel Griffin provides a clinical report on COVID-19, then we discuss Bill Foege’s letter to CDC director Robert Redfield, the false promise of herd immunity for COVID-19, secret blueprints for SARS-CoV-2 vaccine trials released, and neuropilin-1 as a possible entry protein for the virus.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker

Guest: Daniel Griffin

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DicksonNikon Small World Photography Competition
BrianneModeling Herd Immunity for measles
AlanSmall Gods by Terry Pratchett
RichBoundless Body Radio Bethany and Casey Ruff
VincentThe Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois

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Lisa joins TWiV to discuss her research on the pathogenesis of SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV-2, including work on vaccines and an antiviral, then we review the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein as a potential analgesic, and listener questions.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler and Brianne Barker

Guest: Lisa Gralinski

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BrianneThe Lonely Pipette Podcast: Mentoring with Harmit Malik
Kathy –  Dr. Boyd the Chemist one and two  GREAT short videos one and two,  How to read an old school thermometer, New Marvel storyline, Wear a Mask parody of Be My Guest
RichClear+Vivid with Alan Alda
VincentImmune 36: Aberrant immunity in COVID-19

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RyanDr. Fauci on politicization of pandemic

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Daniel Griffin provides a clinical report on COVID-19, we debunk the Great Barrington Declaration, and discuss smell and taste changes as early indicators of the pandemic, vascular disease and thrombosis in SARS-CoV-2 infected humans and rhesus macaques, and the ability of the swine pathogen SADS-CoV to infect human respiratory tract cells.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker

Guest: Daniel Griffin

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DicksonThe Age of Nature
BrianneVirologist, Immunologist, Science Communicator pins and Virus Earrings
AlanSharks, Squalene, and a SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine
Rich6th Annual Science Mill Benefit
VincentThe Evolution of Infectious Disease by Paul Ewald

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Ari and Kishana, two of the founders of Black in Microbiology, join TWiV to discuss the goals of the organization, then we review pauses of J&J and Lilly COVID-19 vaccine trials, preclinical studies of Regeneron’s SARS-CoV-2 monoclonal antibody cocktail, reinfection of a patient in Nevada, and listener questions.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler and Brianne Barker

Guest: Ari Kozik and Kishana Taylor

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BrianneA Lab of One’s Own by Rita Colwell
Kathy –  Endonym map
Rich“The Coronavirus Unveiled” by Carl Zimmer
VincentPrinciples of Virology 5th Edition

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LesCoronavirus cake
MaryChoir finds a way to sing

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