This week in virology, the podcast about viruses, the kind that make you sick.

From microbe TV, this is Twiv this week in virology episode 996 recorded on March 30th, 2023.

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

Joining me today from New York, Daniel Griffin. Hello, everyone.

Daniel, we're creeping up on number 1000 and we're getting there sooner because, you know, we

we did three episodes a week for a while and now you and I do one and we do another one. So

it's quite interesting. The where we ended up with this little podcast.

Yes, you know, I was looking back and when the pandemic started,

Twiv was only in the 500s. Exactly. And I remember you called one day and said,

let's do it this week in COVID. And I don't know, maybe it would have been better to do that

because having COVID in the name would have maybe brought more people. But I thought, you know,

we hadn't established base for Twiv and so we're happy to end, but maybe COVID would have been,

you know, we have we have morphed into other viruses as needed. So maybe it's okay. The way we did it.

I have to say, I think it's a good idea. The way you've gone with this, making it this week in

virology because hopefully people are learning a little bit more about viruses in general.

And hopefully there'll be an audience that stays with Twiv and realizes that this important

stuff to know. I mean, I say and I'm not sure how to characterize that. I say this, but, you know,

we are still expecting that flu pandemic, all these other pandemics. This may have only been a shot

across the bow. So this is stuff that's relevant. And hopefully it's stuff that people are finding

interesting, that education, that theme. And hopefully people will stick with us. Well, Daniel,

we're going to keep at it. But frankly, there's no one else doing this at a frequency and at a

depth that we do, right? So just for that reason alone, we have people listening. People are leaving.

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