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This Week in Virology

TWiV 987: Convalescing with Casadevall

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2023

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

Arturo Casadevall returns to TWiV to explain the use of convalescent serum to treat COVID-19 patients, and the need to support virology at a time when more regulation of experiments is envisioned. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Guest: Arturo Casadevall Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Register for ASV 2023 MicrobeTV Discord Server Early treatment of COVID-19 with convalescent plasma (NEJM) Neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 by convalescent plasma (Nat Comm) Convalescent COVID-19 plasma for immunocompromised patients (JAMA Net Open) Virology under the microscope (mSphere) Virology in peril (mSphere) Emil von Behring Nobel Lecture Letters read on TWiV 987 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Rich - Flammarion engraving Alan - What Remains of Edith Finch Vincent - The CDC’s Long-Covid Deception Listener Pick Bill - General Relativity For Babies 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 microob TV, this is Twiv, this week in virology, episode 987 recorded on February 24, 2023.

0:21.6

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

0:26.4

Joining me today from Austin, Texas, Rich Condit.

0:30.4

Hi everybody. All good here, 57 degrees cloudy.

0:35.8

Was it go from 80 to 57, like in a week?

0:39.6

Oh yeah, up and down and up and down. It's going to be 80 again in a couple. Let me see here.

0:44.4

Tomorrow's 68, Sunday's 80, Monday's 80. I think we've probably seen our last freeze.

0:52.2

Also joining us from Western Massachusetts, Ellen Dove. Good to be here. It is a blustery winter

1:00.2

day here in Western Mass. We've got ice still left on the ground from the sleet storm and it's now

1:06.7

29 Fahrenheit. It was in the 30s. It was low 30s earlier in the day. So the temperature is plummeting

1:12.7

and wind is blasting through at 30 to 40 knots. Lovely weather.

1:17.7

We have a guest for you today from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,

1:24.7

Arturo Casadeva. Welcome back.

1:28.2

Thank you for having me back. It's an honor to be here with you.

1:32.1

You were last year in April of 2021. Time flies, doesn't it?

1:39.0

A lot is happening since then, Vincent.

1:42.0

Yes. There's the understatement of the year.

1:44.6

2021. Yeah, a lot has happened since then. You've been on some of my other podcasts as well.

1:51.5

So we're always happy to have you and chat with you. So today we have a couple of

1:57.4

topics, including a convalescent plasma because a few months ago we made some statements that

2:03.4

perhaps we're not correct and so you're here to correct us. Before we do that,

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