Episode Details

TWiV explains the meaning of vaccine-derived poliovirus found in London sewage, risk of long COVID after infections with Delta or Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2, and enhancers of innate immune signaling as broad-spectrum antivirals.

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

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Links for this episode

• Poliovirus in UK sewage (ProMedMail and Science)
• Poliovirus eradication effort (Science)
• Long COVID after Delta and Omicron (Lancet)
• How common is long COVID? (Nature)
• Immune enhancers as antivirals (Cell Chem Biol)
• Letters read on TWiV 913
• Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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Vincent – The Tyranny of Merit by Michael J. Sandel

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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