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Back to EpisodesCrowley, coats, and cross-reactive antibodies
Description
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.
Guests: Daniel Griffin and Kathleen A. Crowley
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Links for this episode
- Pfizer vaccine efficacy (Pfizer)
- Pfizer vaccine (Stat)
- Distribution of Pfizer vaccine (NY Times)
- LSTMH vaccine tracker
- SARS-CoV-2 humans to mink and back in Netherlands (Science)
- SARS-CoV-2 mink isolates in Denmark (pdf)
- Preexisting antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 in humans (Science)
- Letters read on TWiV 681
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
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