TWiV 1233: Long COVID and big bats

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 6 July 2025

⏱️ 111 minutes

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TWiV covers FDA Director overriding scientists on COVID shots, NIH funded science must now be free to read instantly, Trump cuts subscriptions to Springer Nature journals, UK and Gates make up for US money withdrawn from GAVI, US defunding USAID could lead to 14 million deaths by 2030, then reviews research on how host IL1 genetics regulates Epstein-Barr virus reactivation and long COVID, and enhanced antiviral capacity of bat innate immunity. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV FDA official overrides scientists on COVID shots (NYTimes) NIH funded science must be immediately open access (Nature) Trump cuts journal subscriptions for NIH (Science) Donors make up GAVI US shortfall (Reuters) USAID defunding will lead to 14 million deaths (CIDRAP) SARS-CoV-2, IL1, Epstein-Barr virus and long COVID (Cell Rep) Bat innate immunity (Nat Comm) Letters read on TWiV 1233 Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Rich – Unraveling Mendel’s final mysteries: A genomic retelling of pea genetics (Thanks, Kathy!) (Original article) Alan – Winners of Nature’s 2025 “Scientist at Work” photo competition Vincent – Signs of AI-generated text found in 14% of biomedical abstracts last year 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.
0:10.1	From MicrowTV, this is Twiv. This week in Virology, episode 1233, recorded on the 4th of July 1776.
0:24.0	Not really.
0:25.1	It's 2025, but that's why it's a holiday today in the U.S.
0:29.9	I'm Vincent Rackeniello, and you're listening to the podcast All About Viruses.
0:34.7	Joining me today from Western Massachusetts, Alan Dove.
0:38.3	Good to be here, and it is a gorgeous Fourth of July here in Western Mass, 81 Fahrenheit,
0:44.0	actually 78 Fahrenheit.
0:47.1	Sorry, it just updated 26C, and it's clear blue skies and light breezes and just absolutely lovely.
0:57.4	28C here.
0:59.9	Same there.
1:00.4	Sunny.
1:00.8	Also joining us from Austin, Texas.
1:02.5	Rich Condit.
1:03.7	Hi, everybody.
1:05.2	I have a special weather report for you today.
1:10.1	So we seem to be experiencing, we are experiencing the remnants of the tropical storm that came
1:18.2	up through the Gulf of Mexico and glanced off Mexico and landed in Texas.
1:26.3	Okay.
1:32.8	And that's both good news and bad news. The good news is that the temperature here is, I'll bet it's close to a record low, 78 degrees. And it's been raining here in
1:39.8	Austin for over 24 hours, which we desperately need and soaking my garden, which I just love.
1:48.0	The bad news is that about 100 miles west from here, and I think you will probably read about
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