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Back to SearchCOVID-19 clinical update #64 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
Episode 761
In COVID-19 clinical update #64, Daniel Griffin covers new guidance from NY on day camps, mitigation and infection rates in schools, testing to susta…
4 years, 7 months ago
SARS-CoV-2 origins with Peter Daszak, Thea Kølsen Fischer, Marion Koopmans
Episode 760
Peter Daszak, Thea Kølsen Fischer, and Marion Koopmans, members of the WHO team investigating the origins of SARS-CoV-2 join TWiV to explain the work…
4 years, 7 months ago
Pork dogs and an evolutionary pickle
Episode 759
TWiV examines spillovers of porcine and canine coronaviruses into humans in Haiti and Malaysia, and how antigenic evolution of measles virus is const…
4 years, 7 months ago
COVID-19 clinical update #63 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
Episode 758
In COVID-19 clinical update #63, Daniel Griffin reviews cases at child care facilities, estimates of mRNA vaccine effectiveness, risk of reinfection …
4 years, 7 months ago
Supershedders and super vaccines
Episode 757
TWiV reveals that 2% of SARS-CoV-2−positive individuals carry 90% of the virus circulating in a college campus, and a nanoparticle vaccine that induc…
4 years, 7 months ago
Precluding problematic polio prophylaxis
Episode 756
TWiV returns to the 2012 brouhaha over transmission experiments with avian H5N1 influenza virus, re-examines the claim of SARS-CoV-2 RNA integration …
4 years, 8 months ago
COVID-19 clinical update #62 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
Episode 755
In COVID-19 clinical update #62, Daniel Griffin covers outdoor transmission of the virus, safe use of NSAIDS, expansion of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to…
4 years, 8 months ago
Tuesday two: SARS-CoV-2 and TLR2
Episode 754
TWiV discusses the finding that the envelope (E) protein of SARS-CoV-2 is sensed by toll-like receptor 2 on cells, leading to the production of infla…
4 years, 8 months ago
The ferret nose where the virus goes
Episode 753
TWiV revisits Brazil’s rejection of Sputnik vaccine, examines influenza transmission via the air from the nasal epithelium of ferrets, and a history …
4 years, 8 months ago
COVID-19 clinical update #61 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
Episode 752
In COVID-19 clinical update #61, Daniel Griffin reviews a modeling of future hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination rates and non pharmaceutical …
4 years, 8 months ago