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This Week in Virology

TWiV 876: Spillover market with Michael Worobey

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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

4.8 β€’ 2.2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 17 March 2022

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Michael Worobey joins TWiV to explain evidence that SARS-CoV-2 emerged via the wildlife trade and that the Huanan market was the unambiguous epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker Guest: Michael Worobey Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Early COVID-19 cases in Wuhan (TWiV 833) Huanan market was epicenter of COVID-19 (Zenodo) Two spillover events launched COVID-19 pandemic (Zenodo) Robert Malone and Peter McCullough: A litany of untruths (Decoding the Gurus) Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Brianne – Kartchner Caverns (info from Wikipedia here) Kathy – Laminar flow and turbulent flow Rich – Wikipedia Vincent – The Human Lake by Carl Zimmer Listener Picks Brad – NASASpaceflight Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv

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0:00.0

This week in virology, the podcast about viruses, the kind that make you sick.

0:10.4

From micro TV, this is twiv this week in virology episode 876 recorded on March 15th, 2022.

0:21.9

I'm Vincent Rackenello and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses.

0:25.9

Joining me today from Austin, Texas, Rich Condit.

0:29.7

Oh, Vincent, we have 74 degrees in sunny. It's windy, but it's nice.

0:36.2

And we're looking at nice weather for the foreseeable future. We may be out of the woods winter-wise,

0:44.4

not that the woods are very thick here in Austin, Texas.

0:48.0

Not as thick as our woods. Also joining us from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Kathy Spindler.

0:53.2

Hi, everybody. Here it's 46 Fahrenheit, which is almost 8 Celsius.

0:58.4

And it's partly cloudy. We had some surprise snow the other morning, but it was melted by afternoon.

1:04.5

And I keep thinking that's going to be the last snow, but we could have more.

1:10.0

Yeah, we had a little snow school on Saturday. And it melted on Sunday.

1:16.7

And for Madison, New Jersey, Brianne Barker.

1:18.8

Hi, great to see everyone. In fact, was flying back to New Jersey during that school,

1:25.6

which was surprisingly unpleasant. But that snow is totally gone because it's currently 69

1:31.6

Fahrenheit, 21 Celsius here, and sunny and lovely.

1:35.7

I guess today's from the University of Arizona, Michael Warby, where I guess it's a little warmer.

1:41.7

Welcome, Michael. Thank you very much.

1:43.7

Yeah, 79 Fahrenheit here might be saying goodbye to the 70s for eight months here now,

1:53.6

but great to be with all of you guys. And thanks so much for having me on.

1:57.9

Last time I saw you, you gave a talk at the E and Lipkin thing.

2:01.3

All right. You said, oh, on Twitter, you were talking about the HIV, the data tracking HIV origins

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