This Week in Virology TWiV 673: Wake up and smell the pandemic
Daniel Griffin provides a clinical report on COVID-19, we debunk the Great Barrington Declaration, and discuss smell and taste changes as early indicators of the pandemic, vascular disease and thrombosis in SARS-CoV-2 infected humans and rhesus macaques, and the ability of the swine pathogen SADS-CoV to infect human respiratory tract cells.
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Links for this episode- Daniel's COVID-19 testing strategy calculator (and medRxiv preprint)
- US COVID-19 mortality rates (JAMA)
- Final remdesivir report (NEJM)
- Hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 (NEJM)
- Tech position with Dr. Rosenfeld
- Biological safety officer position at CUMC
- Support MicrobeTV at Parasites Without Borders
- Smell and taste changes as early pandemic indicators (Nat Comm)
- Vascular disease and thrombosis in SARS-CoV-2 infected macaques (Cell)
- SADS-CoV can infect human airway cells (PNAS)
- Letters read on TWiV 673
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
Dickson – The Age of Nature Brianne – Virologist, Immunologist, Science Communicator pins and Virus Earrings Alan – Sharks, Squalene, and a SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Rich – 6th Annual Science Mill Benefit Vincent – The Evolution of Infectious Disease by Paul Ewald
Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv