Episode Details

Infectious Disease physician Jake Scott joins TWiV to provide a west coast clinical perspective on the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic with respect to the impact of vaccines, antivirals, variants of concern and mortality.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit,  and Kathy Spindler

Guest: Jake Scott

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• Support MicrobeTV with a Spike t-shirt (Vaccinated.us) with promo code MicrobeTV
• Omicron variant reproduction ex vivo (Nature)
• Clinical outcomes with Omicron (Nat Med)
• Low neutralizing antibodies induced by bivalent booster (NEJM)
• Antibody responses to bivalent booster (bioRxiV)
• Spike T cell responses not enhanced by bivalent booster (Sci Immunol)
• Pandemic end will not be televised (BMJ)
• Conflation of infection and disease (Twitter)
• Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees