TWiV 948: Breathless with David Quammen

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 23 October 2022

⏱️ 110 minutes

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David Quammen returns to TWiV to discuss how he wrote his new book ‘Breathless’, a story about the science and the scientists behind the race to understand the pandemic coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker Guest: David Quammen Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Boston Quammens (TWiV 408) Breathless by David Quammen Spillover by David Quammen Song of the Dodo by David Quammen Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks David – Shepherd Brianne – Adventure Aquarium Kathy – DART results (Narrative, images) Rich – “Elementary” TV series Vincent – Stop passing the buck on intro science Listener Pick Rich – Consensus 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 micro TV, this is Twiv this week in virology, episode 948 recorded on October 12, 2022.
0:21.5	I'm Vincent Racken-Yellow. You're listening to the podcast all about viruses.
0:25.9	Joining me today from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Kathy Spindler.
0:30.1	Hi everybody. Here it's 71 Fahrenheit, 22 Celsius, and it's
0:36.0	supposedly a heavy rain throughout the day, but right now it's not raining, but there's big stuff coming.
0:42.2	Big stuff coming. That's a very precise forecast. Big stuff coming. I like that.
0:47.0	Also joining us from Austin, Texas, Rich Condit.
0:50.4	Hi everybody. 94 degrees. And bright sunshine. We're not out of it yet. I keep thinking we're out of it,
1:00.8	and then we're not. Also joining us from Madison, New Jersey, Brienne Barker.
1:05.8	Hi, great to be here. No hundred degree weather in New Jersey. In fact, we have 71 just like
1:11.6	Kathy, and it's pretty nice and sunny out there. We have a guest for you today. In fact, this is a
1:16.4	special midweek recording. We haven't done that in a while. He has been on Twiv before,
1:23.6	and he is the author of the newly published book, Breathless, David Klamen. Welcome back.
1:30.8	Thank you, Vincent. Good to be back. Good to see you again. Good to see all three of you
1:35.2	others. Rich, Kathy, and Brienne. 61 degrees and sunny in Boseman, Montana. The leaves are golden.
1:42.7	The breeze is cool, and it could snow any minute. So at 61, that means it's 16 Celsius.
1:49.1	It's the Palandromic pair, the other Palandromic pair of 28 and 82.
1:53.5	Oh, okay. All right. Sixty. Well, that's, yeah, those are two that I can remember. That's about all I can
1:59.2	remember about the conversion. So David was last on Twiv 408, which was in September 2016. It was
2:07.1	Alan and me and David at the needle in Boston. We actually recorded in one of their training rooms.
2:14.2	Remember that, David? Yeah. Yeah. Paul Dupre was around that day, I think, too. He was. Yeah.
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