TWiV 1191: The pandemic duo

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2025

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

TWiV reviews freezes and unfreezes of US government grants, how prior COVID-19 vaccination prevents over-reaction of the innate immune response during infections, and how bat genomes illuminate adaptations to viral tolerance and disease resistance. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Alan Dove Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV ASV 2025 NIH freezes (ScienceAdviser) Is your research on Trump’s hit list? (ScienceInsider) Prior COVID-19 vaccination tames innate responses (Sci Transl Med) Bat genomes illuminate viral tolerance and disease resistance (Nature) Letters read on TWiV 1191 Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Alan – NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center dashboards Vincent – He created a hummingbird paradise in his backyard Listener Picks Christiane – Contact your members of Congress about the Pause in Federal Grant Funding Charles – What’s trending in the world of pseudoscience Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to [email protected] Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

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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 Microgh TV, this is Twiv, this week in Virology.
0:15.5	Episode 1191, recorded on January 31st, 2025. I'm Vincent Rackeniello, and you're listening to the podcast
0:26.1	All About Viruses. Joining me today from Western Massachusetts, Alan Dove.
0:32.8	Good to be here. And let's see, it is kind of crummy weather here. We've got light rain. It's 41
0:40.2	Fahrenheit, which is the warmest it's been in quite a while. But it's wet and cold and foggy and
0:48.8	supposed to stay like that. At least it's not snowing. And then I think we're getting another
0:54.7	another deep freeze coming up. Yeah, here it's 7C. It's raining. And it looks like,
1:04.3	yeah, it's going to go back into the deep freeze. So I guess that through February.
1:12.4	Yeah.
1:14.5	It's cloudy outside.
1:16.0	But at least it's not a deep freeze right now.
1:19.4	Right.
1:26.1	Okay.
1:27.9	If you like these programs, it's just Alan and I.
1:30.6	Yeah, that's it.
1:31.6	It's just, yeah, that pause there was like he was getting ready to welcome in the other guests.
1:35.5	And I was thinking, yep, he's going to remember there aren't any.
1:38.3	No, I was just going to do something else.
1:41.0	But I wanted to tell you that, Alan, I have done this before.
1:44.7	Yes, we have.
1:45.7	In the very beginning, so I started this with Dixon, and then it became clear that Dixon didn't want to be stuck every Friday doing this.
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