TWiV 927: Merchlinsky vs monkeypox

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 14 August 2022

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Michael Merchlinsky joins TWiV to discuss the development of two smallpox antiviral drugs and two smallpox vaccines and their uses during the monkeypox outbreak. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Guest: Michael Merchlinsky Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Michael on Anything but academic (TWiM 145) Development of Tecoviromat (TPOXX) (Antiviral Res) Use of Jynneos vaccine (MMWR) Limitations of Tecoviromat (NEJM) Poliovirus in NYC wastewater (NY Times) Letters read on TWiV 927 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Dickson – Duke Ellington and his Orchestra. Signature song: Take The A Train; Signature album: Black, Brown, And Beige and Herding Cats: Harlem 1958 Kathy – How the US Postal Service reads terrible handwriting Rich – JWST/chorizo gag Vincent – Bat Conservation Trust Listener Picks Bill – The End of Manual Transmission J – How the Krebs cycle powers life and death – with Nick Lane 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 927, recorded on August 12,
0:20.4	2020-22. I'm Vincent Racken Yellow and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses.
0:26.9	Joining me today from Fort Lee, New Jersey, Dixon, day-pomye.
0:31.6	Hello everyone, hello Vincent. The weather outside is spectacular. I said yesterday on
0:38.4	Twip that the weather looked nice, but you didn't want to go outside. It was hot and humid.
0:43.6	Today, the temperatures have modified down into a reasonable number and the humidity has gone down
0:50.0	also. It's absolutely stunning. Also joining us from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Kathy Spindler.
0:57.3	Hi everybody. Here it's just about perfect weather. Also 78 Fahrenheit, 26 Celsius, just a few
1:05.2	white puffy clouds in a gorgeous blue sky. It's been cooling down in the evenings. It's just great.
1:11.6	Also joining us from Austin, Texas, Rich Condit.
1:14.4	Hi everybody. 99 degrees, a little bit of overcast. This is important. Many fewer
1:25.7	100 degree days in the long range forecast. Maybe we are exiting this craziness. I don't know,
1:31.7	but I could sure do with some rain. We have a guest for you today from
1:37.3	US Department of Health and Human Services, Michael Merchlinsky. Welcome to Twiv, Michael.
1:42.6	Thank you. I'm from just outside Washington, DC, and sharing the weather described earlier. It's
1:49.5	probably one of the 10 best days of the year. Michael, you're at Barda, is that correct?
1:55.8	That's correct. Biomedical Advanced Research in the Philip No 30, which is also outside of DC,
2:01.1	is that correct? Yes. The actual headquarters are down near the Humphrey Building inside of DC.
2:08.6	So when you usually go to work, you're at home now, but when you go to work, that's where you would go.
2:14.9	Yes. My office actually looks out. I can see the capital from my office.
2:19.1	Oh, nice.
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