TWiV 1031: Death on the West Nile

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

Vincent, Microbe, Medicine, Microbiology, Racaniello, Infection, Virus, Virology, Pathogen, Infectious, Twiv, Science & Medicine

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🗓️ 30 July 2023

⏱️ 124 minutes

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TWiV notes the passing of virologist Michael BA Oldstone, a study to assess the performance of rapid antigen tests to detect symptomatic and asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection, and the presence of antibodies to type I interferons in ~40% of patients with West Nile virus encephalitis. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Alan Dove Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server MicrobeTV store at Cafepress Position in Rosenfeld Laboratory (pdf) XKCD on antivaxxers RFK Jr. CDC or FDA head? (Politico) Performance of rapid antigen tests (Ann Int Med) Guidance on rapid antigen tests (FDA) Autoantibodies to IFN in West Nile virus encephalitis (JEM) Letters read on TWiV 1031 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Rich – The Final Covid-19 Grand Rounds: What Have We Learned? Alan – Teaching biology to Tibetan Buddhist monks Vincent – I got it from Agnes by Tom Lehrer and Why Oppenheimer has important lessons for scientists today Listener Picks Ryan – Paul Offit on PBS Newshour to explain RFK Jr.’s Congressional Hearing Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to [email protected]

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0:00.0	This week in virology, the podcast about viruses, the kind that make you sick.
0:10.2	From micro TV, this is Twiv, this week in virology, episode 1031 recorded on July 28, 2023.
0:22.5	I'm Vincent Racken-Ello and you're listening to the podcast, all about viruses.
0:27.8	Joining me today from Austin, Texas, Rich Condit.
0:31.2	Hi there, Vincent, from the Canary City in the climate change mine.
0:40.2	98 degrees. Actually, it's cool today. We can use some rain.
0:44.5	34 C here. Also joining us from Western Massachusetts, Saladov.
0:49.8	Good to be here. And I think we're all Canaries in the climate change mine. These days,
0:54.5	it's 87 Fahrenheit, 31 C, 51 percent humidity. So it's sticky and we've got a heat advisory
1:02.8	and that's continuing through tomorrow and had a line of bad thunderstorms yesterday and it's
1:11.3	it's kind of rough around here. Tell you, I'll take your thunderstorms.
1:17.2	Let me see, the humidity here is 30 percent that helps. Oh, that's not bad.
1:23.0	Not bad. Do point. 61 degrees, yeah. Before you go in here, I want to point out, I wore a t-shirt just
1:28.5	for you, Twiv today. It says countering a miasma of anti-think. This was a saying that someone
1:40.0	wrote in during the pandemic. Yes. Guys, remember? Yeah, vaguely. He or she wrote in, I don't remember.
1:48.3	And you guys, you're doing is countering a miasma of anti-think, which there was plenty of.
1:54.6	There's still probably more these days of anti-think. I just hope that we reach outside or bubble
2:03.8	at least a little bit, you know, because to a large extent, my guess is we're preaching to the choir.
2:11.2	You know, maybe a little of it seeps out. But I do get nasty emails, okay?
2:16.4	Okay, so that's a good sign. So that means that we are outside the, and in fact,
2:23.0	the RFK junior debunk that we did a couple of weeks ago with Dan Wilson. So normally, on YouTube,
2:32.0	we get 90 percent plus likes on the comments. And we get a few hundred comments, three, four,
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