TWiV 1047: Long COVID and avian flu in ferrets

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 24 September 2023

⏱️ 109 minutes

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TWiV explains a study of postacute sequelae of COVID-19 at 2 years, and respiratory droplet transmission of human-isolated avian H3N8 influenza virus between ferrets. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server MicrobeTV store at Cafepress Research assistant position in Rosenfeld Lab CBER/FDA (pdf) 4:20 Postacute sequelae of COVID-19 at 2 years (Nat Med) Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) (WHO) Respiratory droplet transmission of H3N8 virus (Cell) Letters read on TWiV 1047 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Dickson – UN Climate Action and California sues oil companies for exacerbating climate change Brianne – COVID Drugs are a Miracle Cure for Cats Rich – American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin Vincent – Free Carl Zimmer writings Listener Pick Anne – She wrote to a scientist about her fatigue. It inspired a breakthrough. Alan – This Tiny Parasitic Wasp Can Drill Through Plastic 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.
0:10.4	From micro TV, this is TWIV, this week in virology, episode 1047 recorded on September 22nd,
0:21.6	2023. I'm Vincent Racken-Yellow and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses.
0:29.2	Joining me today from Fort Lee, New Jersey, Dixon, Deepam, yay!
0:34.2	Hello, Vincent and everybody else. Well, let's see, I'm looking at the window. It's partly cloudy.
0:40.2	The temperature's in the middle 70s. Humidity is about 42% somewhere in that neighborhood.
0:47.2	An ideal day, basically, but trouble on the way. It's going to rain all weekend.
0:52.8	I'm looking at the weather here, Manhattan is 72 in cloudy and there's
0:57.1	a big hurricane moving up the coast. Exactly, exactly. It looks like it's had Maryland almost.
1:03.4	Yeah, it's moving. It's whipping through. So we're going to have heavy rain all weekend?
1:08.0	Fredso. I'm always inside anyway. What's the difference?
1:11.8	Well, so joining me today from Austin, Texas, Rich Condit.
1:16.4	Hi, everybody. Well, we got 96 degrees headed for 98. It's going to be 100 both days this weekend.
1:27.3	And then maybe it'll cool off a little bit. There's an in quotes cold front coming through
1:33.4	that will, on Monday, lower the temperature to 93 degrees and the long range forecast.
1:40.9	Doesn't look like there's much of a break from this. We're not getting down to the 80s anytime soon.
1:45.2	So there you go. I decided I like hot weather and I'm sad that I don't live somewhere
1:52.5	where it's hot all the time. But well, maybe I'll come visit you for two days and get my
1:57.8	free hot. We can fill you up with hot weather real quick. There's a new show on NPR
2:06.4	called the evolution of earth or something like that. And this week's episode was
2:13.0	life at extreme heats. And so they went to the Sahara Desert and they got a video of the life cycle
2:22.8	of what they call silver ants. I've never heard a silver ants before. They are the fastest moving
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