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TWiV 794: PAMS spray SARS-CoV-2

  • August 15, 2021
  • Tagged as: alpha variant, arbovirus, asymptomatic, cell culture infectivity, coronavirus, COVID-19, mosquito, neuroinvasive, pandemic, R0, reproductive index, SARS-CoV-2, viral, viral RNA load, virology, virus, viruses, west nile virus

TWiV summarizes cases of arbovirus disease during 2019 in the US, and explains a study that estimates infectiousness throughout the SARS-CoV-2 course of infection.

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TWiV 792: Transmission with Jeffrey Shaman

  • August 12, 2021
  • Tagged as: COVID-19, delta variant, epidemiology, pandemic, R0, reproductive index, SARS-CoV-2, transmission, viral, virology, virus, viruses

Jeffrey Shaman returns to TWiV to explain how epidemiologists measure SARS-CoV-2 movement among humans, including calculation of the reproductive index, secondary transmission, and what factors affect transmission.

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TWiV 652: The rules of contagion with Adam Kucharski

  • August 13, 2020
  • Tagged as: coronavirus, COVID-19, epidemiology, incubation period, R0, reproductive index, SARS-CoV-2, superspreader, transmission, viral, virology, virus, viruses

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 585: The coronavirus epidemic

  • February 2, 2020
  • Tagged as: 2019-nCoV, bat viral genome, coronavirus, epidemic, pandemic, pneumonia, R0, reproductive index, spillover, transmission, viral, virology, virus, viruses, Wuhan, zoonosis

The TWiVerers continue their coverage of the new coronavirus outbreak in China, as the number of cases increase dramatically and the virus begins person-to-person transmission in other countries.

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