TWiV 1323: One influenza infection, two patients

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 17 May 2026

⏱️ 109 minutes

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TWiV explains mRNA delivery of mosaic-8 pan-sarbecovirus RBD vaccines, and how toll-like receptor 7 alters the maternal immune landscape during influenza A infection to increase maternal and fetal morbidity, Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV Positions in Rosenfeld Lab (email) RFK Jr. driving vast inquiry into vaccines (NY Times) Indiana plant biologist locked out of lab by school (Science) Trump cuts CDC role in PEPFAR (Science) Ralph Baric retires (The Assembly) Baric to fight NIH funding ban (Science) Ebola outbreak in DRC (npr) Persistence of Andes virus RNA in human semen (Viruses) mRNA delivery of mosaic-8 pan-sarbecovirus RBD vaccines (Cell Rep) Science will break your heart (TWiV 920) TLR7 and maternal and fetal morbidity during influenza (Sci Adv) Letters read on TWiV 1323 Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Kathy – Bloomberg Connects app and What’s in Bloom Peony Season 2026 Bloom Tracker Rich – Medpage Today: What you need to know about hantavirus Vincent – Apollo 11 Almost Never Left the Moon Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv 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 MicrowTV, this is Twiv.
0:13.8	This week in Virology, episode 1323 recorded on May 15th, 2026. My, oh my, how the months are speeding by. Oh, gosh. I'm Vincent
0:27.8	Rackeniello, and you're listening to the podcast, all about viruses. Joining me today from
0:33.7	Ann Arbor, Michigan, Kathy Spindler. Hi, everybody. Here it's 68 Fahrenheit, but the feels like temperature is 61, and all this week the temperatures
0:43.9	have been a lot colder because of the wind.
0:45.9	So it feels like 61, so I'm just going to convert that and tell you that that means it
0:50.2	feels like it's 16 Celsius, and it's partly cloudy.
0:53.9	But on Monday, we're supposed to
0:56.1	have a high of something like 86 to 88 Fahrenheit. So you're looking for some warmer weather coming,
1:03.7	Vincent. Here it's 20 in cloudy. So that's 68, right? 20 is 68? Something like that, yeah.
1:10.4	And tomorrow is supposed to be 27, which would almost be 82 because 28 is 82.
1:17.1	So it's going to get warmer.
1:18.3	And Sunday, it's going to be 30, which is almost a permissive temperature.
1:24.5	Also joining us from Austin, Texas, Rich Condon.
1:30.0	Beautiful.
1:31.4	Ah.
1:32.5	Isn't that sweet?
1:33.5	That's really nice.
1:34.2	It's so sweet, yeah.
1:36.8	Howdy.
1:38.1	It's 88 degrees in sunny.
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