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.
Will writes: Hello TWIVerse, I am a Captain/Paramedic for a large city north of Detroit (Kathy’s meteorological report is usually the same as mine). I am in charge of Macomb County’s Hazardous Materials Response Team,…
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.
Anonymous writes: Hi TWIV team I thought you would be interested in this ad5 vectored vaccine that includes nucleocapsid in addition to spike. The ad5 backbone has been in cancer patients and has been modified…
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.
Tom writes: Dear Twiv, and Dr. Griffin; I hope you will raise some extremely important points I make below with your audience. Part I This is a horrible story that involves the death of a…
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.
Brigitte writes: Hello from the Laurentides, 1+ hour north of Montreal, where fall and most leaves have already fallen; with nights hovering around 0-1-2 Celsius and days creeping just a little below 10! I am…
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.
Cliff writes: A blurb today in my local paper suggests that according to CDC guidelines persons with severe cases of Covid-19 disease ought to isolate for 20 days. Over the past few podcasts Daniel Griffin…
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