Daniel Griffin MD joins TWiV from a hospital parking lot to provide updates on COVID-19 diagnostics, clinical picture, and therapeutics, and then the TWiV team continues coverage of the coronavirus pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2. Click arrow to play Download TWiV 595 (71 MB .mp3, 117 min) Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! ...

by Helen Stillwell Helen is a research associate in David Hafler€™s immunobiology lab at Yale University; previously, she worked on poxviruses at Tonix Pharmaceuticals, and she plans to apply to PhD programs in virology this year. RT-PCR Diagnostics As cases of COVID-19 continue to rise, diagnostic testing has been a ...

I've been delinquent in posting recent episodes of This Week in Virology here. They are all focused on SARS-CoV-2 and the disease it causes, COVID-19. Here is a list: TWiV Special: Coronavirus update with Mark Denison, MD Pediatric infectious disease physician and coronavirologist Mark Denison joins Vincent for a discussion ...

Chloroquine (and a derivative, hydroxychloroquine) has been used for years in the treatment of malaria. The drug is also known to block the entry of many viruses into cells. A small clinical trial has revealed it to be effective in reducing viral loads in COVID-19 patients. Entry of enveloped viruses ...

When it comes to safeguarding the health of the US, there is no one I trust more than Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of NIAHD/NIH (whom I was fortunate to interview on TWiV in 2013). So when Dr. Fauci says that 100,000 people could die in the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak just in ...