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

From micro TV, this is TWIV, this week in virology, episode 882 recorded on March 29th, 2022.

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

joining me today from Madison, New Jersey, Brienne Barker.

Hi, it's great to be here. It is cloudy and 35 Fahrenheit. Winter has made a little bit of a comeback recently.

We had snow even yesterday. It's freezing. Yeah, it is. It's freezing here. It's totally crazy.

It's one degrees and cloudy here. I had to break out my old winter coat, but I think it's going to warm

up, which is nice. I think so too. Hopefully, this may be the end of winter.

Yeah, that would be good. I'm ready for a little warmer weather. Me too.

Well, today we have just me and Brienne, which we've done this before, I think, right?

Yes, we have.

And so I picked a couple of immunology heavy papers. So I hope you enjoyed them.

The first one, our snippet actually, was suggested by Bonnie Offit.

I like seeing that. This is our second email from Dr. Offit, who was a pediatrician

and the wife of Paul Offit, of course. She wrote, Hi Vincent and crew, I would really love to

hear you guys toss you guys toss around this newly published commentary. Seem spot on to me as we

continue to see waning, neutralizing antibodies in the setting of epidemiological evidence of

persistent protection against severe disease, after vaccination and or natural infection in the vast

majority. Perhaps the mRNA vaccine technology is even better at inducing strong T cell immunity

than we realize these authors certainly make a good case that measurement could serve as a better

correlate of immunity. The authors suggest that at the very least we need more research in this area

of T cell memory immunity. And she links to the paper we will talk about. Thank you. As always,

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