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Episode 765
TWiV reviews the new nomenclature for SARS-CoV-2 variants, effectiveness of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against variants, modified Moderna vaccine agains…
4 years, 9 months ago
COVID-19 clinical update #65 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
Episode 764
In COVID-19 clinical update #65, Daniel Griffin summarizes effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions, updated summer camp guidance from CDC, serolo…
4 years, 9 months ago
Cap-snatch fever
Episode 763
TWiV explains how cap-snatching, the priming of viral mRNA synthesis with fragments of host mRNAs, can lead to the synthesis of novel viral proteins.…
4 years, 9 months ago
SARS-CoV-2 origins with Robert Garry
Episode 762
Robert Garry joins TWiV to explain how the molecular biology of SARS-CoV-2 shows that it came from Nature and not a lab, including the receptor bindi…
4 years, 9 months ago
COVID-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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 months ago