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TWiV 870: COVID-19 clinical update #103 with Dr. Daniel Griffin

This Week in Virology / By Vincent Racaniello

In COVID-19 clinical update #103, Daniel Griffin covers immunocompromised people, hospitalization of children, vaccine usage update, Omicron and cross-reactive neutralizing antibodies, reinfection prevents disease in hamsters, repeated infections with endemic coronaviruses, global burden of antimicrobial resistance, ivermectin not protective in hamsters, and Omicron evades therapeutic monoclonals. Click arrow to playDownload TWiV 870 (52 MB .mp3, 43 …

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TWiV 868: COVID-19 clinical update #102 with Dr. Daniel Griffin

This Week in Virology / By Vincent Racaniello

In COVID-19 clinical update #102, Daniel Griffin reviews children and COVID, effectiveness of maternal vaccination, vaccines for immunocompromised, primary care physicians and vaccination rates, booster safety among adults, placentitis, azithromycin, oral Nirmatrelvir, Omicron antibody evasion, EUA for bebtelovimab, IL-1 blocking agents, thromboprophylaxis, effectiveness of vaccines against long COVID, and risks of mental health outcomes.

TWiV 867: I love the smell of vaccines in the morning

1 Comment / This Week in Virology / By Vincent Racaniello

TWiV reviews an experimental, intranasally administered SARS-CoV-2 vaccine that utilizes adenovirus vectors to deliver three viral proteins and induces immunity to ancestral and variant isolates. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Click arrow to playDownload TWiV 867 (128 MB .mp3, 107 min)Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Show notes at microbe.tv/twiv

TWiV 865: COVID-19 clinical update #101 with Dr. Daniel Griffin

This Week in Virology / By Vincent Racaniello

In COVID-19 clinical update #101, Daniel Griffin discusses children and COVID, human challenge study results, effectiveness of mask use, Omicron boost in macaques, mucosal vaccine candidate, long-term cardiovascular outcomes, and global vaccine perceptions.

TWiV 861: Rough draft of Omicron origins

1 Comment / This Week in Virology / By Vincent Racaniello

Nels joins TWiV to discuss hypotheses for the origins of Omicron, including that it came from mice or arose during chronic infection of an immunocompromised patient. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker Guest: Nels Elde Click arrow to playDownload TWiV 861 (69 MB .mp3, 114 min)Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Show notes …

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TWiV 860: Evading a Toll on the road to RNA vaccines

1 Comment / This Week in Virology / By Vincent Racaniello

TWiV reviews a seminal paper showing that chemically modified bases in RNAs suppress recognition by Toll-like receptors, a finding that that was essential for the development of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.

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