TWiV 1227: How can antibody forget a pandemic?

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 15 June 2025

⏱️ 110 minutes

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TWiV reviews the administrations dismantling of the committee that studies pandemic potential, firing of CDC vaccine advisory committee and replacing them with unqualified anti-vaxxers, zoonotic and sustained Mpox spread in Nigeria and Cameroon, and breadth of influenza A antibody cross-reactivity. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Brianne Barker Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV 2:39 NIH terminates pandemic preparedness committee (Science) RFK Jr. fires all ACIP members (CNN) RFK Jr. names dubious members of new ACIP (NPR) Zoonotic and sustained Mpox spread in West Africa (Nature) Breadth of influenza A antibody cross-reactivity (Nat Micro) Letters read on TWiV 1227 Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Brianne – Accidental discovery in planetarium show Alan – Project Hail Mary Vincent – How to speak to a vaccine sceptic: research reveals what works Listener Picks James – Looking at the world through a microscope 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.
0:10.3	From MicrobTV, this is Twiv, this week in Virology, episode 1227 recorded on the 13th of May, 2025, and it's Friday.
0:23.1	Yep, Friday the 13th.
0:25.7	I'm Vincent Rackeniello, and you're listening to the podcast All About Viruses.
0:30.7	Joining me today from Madison, New Jersey, Brian Barker.
0:34.3	Hi, it's great to be here.
0:36.0	It is 79 degrees and cloudy here. Much cooler than
0:43.0	earlier in the week, but still a good day to be inside podcasting. 27C and cloudy here in Chelsea,
0:50.2	which I guess is a neighborhood of Manhattan. Also joining us from Western Massachusetts, Alan Dove.
0:57.0	Good to be here, which is a neighborhood of Massachusetts.
1:00.3	What, good to be here is?
1:01.5	Yeah, Western Massachusetts.
1:04.5	Yeah, it is.
1:05.6	It's 77 Fahrenheit, 25C, and it's mostly cloudy, but very pleasant, nice light breeze.
1:15.7	So these places like Chelsea and Noho and Soho are these neighborhoods?
1:21.0	Those are neighborhoods, yeah.
1:22.5	It's very informal stuff, right?
1:23.7	It has no taxonomic ranking.
1:26.9	Yeah, I mean, technically NoHo is north north of Houston, so-ho is south of Houston.
1:31.7	Yeah, I mean, you'll see some sort of street signs labeling things, especially for parking.
1:36.4	Yes.
1:37.5	So Chelsea is another one. Then we have Midtown, I guess, is one, right?
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