TWiV 940: Eddie Holmes in on viral origins

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Eddie Holmes joins TWiV to discuss his role in the first release of the SARS-CoV-2 genome sequence, what really happened during the infamous Fauci teleconference, and evidence that the virus came from Nature and not from a lab. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Guest: Eddie Holmes Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Research assistant position at FDA (pdf) Support MicrobeTV with a Spike t-shirt (Vaccinated.us) Novel 2019 coronavirus genome (Virological) Proximal origins of SARS-CoV-2 (Virological and Nature versions) Original paper on new CoV in China that led to genome sequence release (Nature) Reporting on Fauci teleconference (USA Today) Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! 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.
0:10.5	From microbe TV, this is TWIV, this week in virology, episode 940 recorded on September 26, 2022.
0:22.4	I'm Vincent Rackenello and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses joining me today from Fort Lee, New Jersey, Dixon de Pommeye.
0:34.1	Hello Vincent and hello our guests. Where are my window? It's actually a beautiful day out there. So no humidity, the temperatures in the 70s, that's far behind.
0:44.2	And we had a hell of a rainstorm last night with lots of thunder and lightning, which brought it on front and then they'd cooled everything down.
0:51.8	And I think we're going to want them to be like they're not looking forward to the next season as it were.
0:59.2	Our guest today, possibly the farthest guest we've ever had on TWIV, he's from the University of Sydney in Australia, Eddie Holmes. Welcome to TWIV.
1:12.8	Great to be here. You're not going to say goodnight.
1:15.8	Great. So you want the weather from Sydney? Yeah, what's the weather like there? Oh, horrible. We're in our third successive line.
1:27.1	No, so it's been I mean people, it's like national depression setting in, particularly on the east coast.
1:33.4	And so the moment it's 13. I can't do it for a long time. Sorry, it's 7 a.m. in the morning. You can do translation. It's 13
1:41.8	Celsius and it's raining and it's been raining virtually the last three years nonstop. We've already broken.
1:50.4	This year will break the all-time record for rainfall by by some distance.
1:54.7	Eddie, didn't you have massive flooding a little while back?
1:58.0	Yeah, yes, we had we had a huge, so just before the pandemic started, we had these massive bushfires, which you may have seen the news.
2:05.5	All of course these new South Wales or I am. And then then then then we had this successive successive rains.
2:12.7	And so it's been flooding has been horrendous. Yeah.
2:15.8	Everybody was worried about where all the funnel webs were going.
2:18.7	In my garden, actually, seems to be quite a few of them. So we have to deal with those every now and again.
2:26.2	Those are nasty little beasts. They're nasty here.
2:29.1	I always use Celsius. So it's 23 Celsius here in New York at the moment. It's 5 p.m. on Monday and for Eddie, it's 7 a.m. on Tuesday, right?
2:40.9	Yep.
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