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

From microbe TV, this is TWIV, this week in virology, episode 877 recorded on March 18th,

2022. I'm Vincent Racken Yellow, and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses.

Joining me today from Panama, Daniel Griffin. Hello everyone. I apologize for my circumstances. I'm doing

this from a relatively remote part of Panama. So hopefully the audio, the sound quality, the video,

and everything goes well. But let me jump right in. So I will start off with a quotation, which I

actually think is quite appropriate for where I am. And this is a quote from Ronald Ross,

who people may know, who listened to this week in parasitism. The Panama Canal was dug with a

microscope. I just love that, just sort of how important science is in a lot of human ventures.

And I think, unfortunately, we forget that. But yes, I am still down in Panama, but let's jump

right into it. Because actually we have a lot to cover. Case numbers and deaths continue to

decrease in the US as a whole. But as our listeners may have heard, the case numbers have started

to rise globally again. And I will say in New York, the numbers have actually plateaued. They're no

longer dropping. We're actually seeing a little more than 2000 cases a day. We'll see where that

goes. But we did hear this week that the waste water monitoring system is starting to see a rise

in the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in about third of its samples. I'm always getting data a little

bit late. So the March 1 through 10. This is a rise from a low number. But nonetheless, it is a rise.

It is going in the wrong direction. Let's get right into the section that will promise to give us

lots of hate mail. A bit of news starting to be shared about Ivermectin. Initially, I thought this

was the COVID out trial, but no. A little bit of press, actually, a serratory at the Wall Street

Journal, who I've interacted with previously, excellent writer. She put together, I think it's a

pretty good article. And when we get the actual data, as opposed to a Wall Street Journal article,

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