How Is SARS-CoV-2 Going to Evolve, and What Does It Mean for Our Future? (with Jesse Bloom)

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

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🗓️ 28 February 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Andy tries to get a glimpse into SARS-CoV-2's future with Fred Hutchinson molecular biologist Jesse Bloom. Jesse is studying the ways the virus could continue to evolve and he gives us a sense of what may be on the horizon and how our immunity could hold up to those changes. Plus, they go back to the basics and talk about how and why this virus is evolving so much faster than other known viruses.

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Learn more about the Bloom Lab’s work: https://research.fredhutch.org/bloom/en.html
Read this preprint about the Bloom Lab’s antibody-escape calculator: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.04.471236v1
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1:12.4	Welcome to the bubble. It's February 28th. Last day of February this is your
1:18.6	host Andy Slavitt. Lot going on in the world. Let's catalog a little bit of it.
1:23.8	Coronavirus is subsiding in most parts of the world, including the U.S. only in
1:30.2	parts of Asia, Pacific and Hong Kong area. Are we seeing continued case
1:35.8	growth, hospitalizations are down, deaths are down. We have a war in Europe, the
1:42.2	largest invasion of another country since Hitler and an unprovoked attack from
1:49.3	President Putin to the Ukrainian people and we are going to be watching that very
1:55.6	closely in touch as we are with State Department. We will bring you news on
2:01.7	that and updates. It is just an incredible thing to think about. So far away from
2:08.5	many of us yet the idea of a democracy being attacked with troops and it's
2:14.6	almost like being attacked by a pathogen. It's a bit of a different thing to get
2:18.4	your mind around. As a result I think things in COVID land are impacted and are
2:24.7	a little bit up in the air in the White House. There is a new plan being rolled
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