TWiV 1277: Vaccine talk with Jake Scott

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 7 December 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Infectious diseases physician Jake Scott returns to TWiV to discuss the dangerous anti-vaccine policies being established in the US and what RFK Jr. and his associates get wrong. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Angela Mingarelli Guest: Jake Scott Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV Vaccine RCT spreadsheet (CIDRAP) What RFK Jr gets wrong about vaccines (Conversation) RFK Jr’s case against mRNA vaccines collapses (STAT) Too many kids’ vaccines? Think again (STAT) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Angela – Angela Palmer, science meets art (one, two) Rich – TWiV Special: A Shot of Hep B with Thomas Tu; TWiV Special: A shot of HepB with Chari Cohen Vincent – TSA is checking senior’s phones for these 5 apps 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.
0:13.4	This week in Virology, episode 1277, recorded on December 5th, 2025.
0:22.0	I'm Vincent Draconiello, listening to the podcast, All About Viruses.
0:27.3	Joining me today from Austin, Texas, Rich Condit.
0:31.1	Hi there, Vincent.
0:33.1	You know, you caught me off guard here because I don't have my weather going.
0:38.2	And it defaults, believe it or not, to Gainesville.
0:43.4	I can tell you it's cool.
0:45.7	I think last I looked it was about 53, 54.
0:49.8	So for around here, that's cool.
0:52.3	And overcast, but we'll survive.
0:55.2	Here it is 0C in Chelsea, but I'm going to lose the contest because Angela Mingarelli in Montreal is going to be colder, right, Angela?
1:06.5	It is.
1:07.3	Currently in Fahrenheit it is 14 degrees, so that's minus 10C. And this morning it was one degree Fahrenheit, minus 17. It is very cold. We have what is called a polar vortex in Montreal. That's what they call it. And it's supposed to be this cold all week. Do you have snow? We do have snow. Yes. That's nice. You don't? No, there's no snow here. Oh, yeah, we still have snow.
1:29.6	There's no snow here either. Well, our guest today, coming back for the second time, he was last
1:36.3	here in November 2020, so like three years ago, roughly, and I'm sure it's warm where he is.
1:44.3	It's Jake Scott from Stanford. Welcome, Jake.
1:47.3	Thank you so much. It's really great to be back. It's 51 degrees here, which is actually
1:52.0	kind of cold, I have to say, but that's for us, Californians. I did go to med school in Vermont,
1:58.6	though, and went to Montreal for fun, fun and boy it gets cold up there.
2:03.7	Vermont is very cold.
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