Daniel Griffin provides a clinical report on COVID-19, followed by a review of the findings that children shed as much SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA from the respiratory tract as older patients, the lineage giving rise to SARS-CoV-2 has been circulating in bats in China for decades, and answers to listener questions.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker

Guest: Daniel Griffin and Chuck Knirsch

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Links for this episode

Roche trial of Actemra for COVID-19 fails (Reuters)
Postdoctoral position at RML
Shedding of SARS-CoV-2 at different ages (JAMA Ped)
Evolutionary origins of SARS-CoV-2 (Nat Microbio)
Letters read on TWiV 648
Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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