Vincent and Rich update the current situation with COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2, including fatality ratios, virus spreading outside of China, immunity to infection, vaccines, antivirals and much more.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Rich Condit
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- WHO CoV sitreps 4:21
- How to Prepare for the Coronavirus (NY Times) 12:55
- Multiple shedding routes of SARS-CoV-2 (Emerg Microbes Inf) 23:30
- Cruise ship a/c could promote virus spread (Purdue news) 1:14:16
- Open source SARS-CoV-2 peptide vaccine design (GitHub)
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- Letters read on TWiV 589 27:03
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees.
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Dear Twiv please expect more conspiracy theories on COVID-19 in coming weeks given that Travis Air Force Base in Solano County, CA is the lead facility involved in the COVID-19 rescue an quarantine operations. Here in Solano County, CA We are being told to take precautions by the CDC.
https://www.ci.vacaville.ca.us/Home/Components/News/News/6064/29?backlist=%2f
https://www.ci.vacaville.ca.us/Home/Components/News/News/6062/29?backlist=%2f
https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2020/02/28/second-solano-coronavirus-case-confirmed-third-pending-confirmation/
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Fairfield-Suisun-school-district-coronavirus-CDC-15089649.php
All Solano County, residents can do is to get informed about community acquired COVID-19 to come out in the do here is to not panic and follow CDC updates as we are told here in the county.
https://www.thereporter.com/2019/05/28/sccs-first-biomanufacturing-class-takes-its-big-walk/
https://cafwd.org/reporting/entry/california-community-colleges-launch-biomanufacturing-bachelor-degree-progr
I heard rumors that a lab in the United States or China made a bioweapon for COVID-19. But that was disproven and we have some of the evidence here. Solano Community College is a BSL1 lab that is meant to meet FDA guidelines though. And two the county has been in talks to get biotech startups in the area. These areas as far as I know do not meet BSL4 standards. They are meant to meet BSL 1 Standards.
http://solano.edu/biomanufacturing/
https://solanoedc.org/key-industries/biotech-biomedical/
Maybe I’m missing something but I don’t see the link to the github repository mentioned towards the end of the episode (timestamp 1:22:00)
Sorry, my omission – link has been added to show notes.
The link doesn’t seem to have shown up in the show notes.