TWiV 913: Twinkle twinkle little SARS

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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

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🗓️ 26 June 2022

⏱️ 117 minutes

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TWiV explains the meaning of vaccine-derived poliovirus found in London sewage, risk of long COVID after infections with Delta or Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2, and enhancers of innate immune signaling as broad-spectrum antivirals. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Poliovirus in UK sewage (ProMedMail and Science) Poliovirus eradication effort (Science) Long COVID after Delta and Omicron (Lancet) How common is long COVID? (Nature) Immune enhancers as antivirals (Cell Chem Biol) Letters read on TWiV 913 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Dickson – Count Basie: April in Paris Kathy – Bird aerodynamics & inertia: lay article, video, Nature Rich – NASA Gateway (Thanks Ellis) Alan – Polio Eradication in Nigeria Vincent – The Tyranny of Merit by Michael J. Sandel Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to [email protected]

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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 microbe TV, this is TWIV this week in virology, episode 913 recorded on June 24th,
0:20.0	2022. I'm Vincent Racken Yellow and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses.
0:26.5	Joining me today from Fort Lee, New Jersey, Dixon, D'Ai,
0:30.5	Hello Vincent and the gang. Looking up my window, it's a puffy white clouds,
0:39.7	gentle breeze, 82 to 84 degrees, humidity around 45 to 50%.
0:47.2	Another was a perfect summer day. Also joining us from Western Massachusetts, Alan Dove.
0:53.2	It's great to be back on a Friday TWIV. Here in Western Mass, it's 79 Fahrenheit,
0:59.9	26C and another glorious beautiful summer day and what has been a gorgeous early summer.
1:09.6	An atypically gorgeous early summer here in Western Mass. It's just been lovely weather and
1:17.0	we haven't had the heat or the AC on. We just opened the windows and it's wonderful.
1:21.3	From Ann Arbor, Michigan, Kathy Spindler. Hi everybody, here it's 87. No, it's 85 Fahrenheit,
1:29.7	30 Celsius and it says that tomorrow we're going to have an air quality alert, but I'm not sure why.
1:37.5	Anyway, it's about 80, just to 87. So it's a little warmer than my favorite, which is 82.
1:46.2	And from Austin, Texas, Rich Condit. Hi everybody. It's just troubles, Rich.
1:53.4	It is 99 degrees here, I know. We're headed for, I think the forecast is for 101 today. Yes,
2:03.4	forecast for 101. We are working on day 19 of temperatures in excess of 100 degrees this year.
2:11.4	We're moving rapidly towards a record for June number of days over 100 degrees. So it's hotter than
2:21.7	stink here. But you know, it's okay. Now, I went out for a walk this morning. It was quite pleasant.
2:33.2	It's extraordinary in the morning. This is the part of the year where we get to have the
2:37.2	the better weather than you. Exactly. Exactly. So speaking of the gang, as Alan said, I had
2:44.2	occasion to fire up Skype this morning. Oh, wow. Did it sort of go clunk clunk as you fired it up?
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