TWiV Special: One COVID vaccine for them all with Paul Offit

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Paul Offit returns to TWiV to unpack the recent FDA Advisory Panel on COVID vaccines, with discussions on giving everyone the same bivalent vaccine, simplifying the immunization schedule, and how to know when the vaccine should be updated. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Rich Condit Guest: Paul Offit Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode FDA briefing document (pdf) Effectiveness of bivalent booster against severe infection (NEJM) 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.
0:10.3	From micro TV, this is twiv this week in virology, a special episode recorded on February 2nd,
0:19.6	2023. I'm Vincent Drakin yellow and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses.
0:25.7	Joining me today from Austin, Texas, rich condit. Hello there, Vincent. I haven't even had
0:32.4	chance to look at the weather, but I'm guessing it's mid 30s and we're just emerging from an ice storm.
0:37.8	Ice in Austin. Ice in Austin, it has closed down the schools and the businesses for the past three days.
0:43.7	Everything is okay. We have a guest for you today returning for, I don't know how many times I didn't
0:50.1	count a lot more than most. He is at the University of Pennsylvania Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania.
0:58.0	Pull off it. Welcome back. Thank you. It's fun to be back here in Philadelphia.
1:03.6	It's 38 degrees Fahrenheit, 3 degrees centigrade and sunny, although it's not always sunny in Philadelphia.
1:10.6	You're not upstairs in your house. No, this is I'm upstairs, but it isn't the Philadelphia house.
1:15.6	Okay, I see. You know, Paul, you are now twiv adjacent. That's the phrase that people use here.
1:22.8	You hear so many times that you're twiv adjacent. All right, we wanted to have you here to talk about
1:27.5	the recent vaccines and related biological products advisory committee meeting for the FDA.
1:35.8	Okay, and so let me first ask you, what is the role of this VRBPAC and the FDA? How are they related to one another?
1:47.4	So it's an independent advisory committee, a group that is independent of the pharmaceutical industry,
1:52.6	independent of the government that generally has a background in verology, immunology, vaccines,
1:58.6	that then advises the FDA in terms of vaccines. They can choose to ignore our advice, but we
2:07.5	agree with your advice. Oh, so it was originally established by the FDA or completely independent?
2:13.0	It was. Now, I think it was established by the FDA. It's the equivalent of the advisory committee
2:16.9	for immunization practices to the CDC, also an independent group that advises the CDC.
2:21.0	Has it got bacterial just on it as well? What they tend to do, in terms of what I really like
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