This Week in Virology

Alfonso, Ken, Mary and Janet join TWiV to explain their modeling of school reopening strategies during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Rich Condit Guests: Alfonso Landeros, Ken Lange, Mary E. Sehl, and Janet Sinsheimer Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode School reopening strategies (medRxiv) Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv

Epidemiologist Adam Kucharski joins TWiV to discuss SARS-CoV-2, including R0, incubation period, herd immunity, asymptomatic infection, superspreaders, children as drivers of pandemics, and how this one will end. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker Guest: Adam Kucharski Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode The Rules of Contagion (Amazon affiliate link) Overdispersion in SARS-CoV-2 transmission (Wellcome Open Res) Sorrento Therapeutics test In vitro diagnostics EUAs (FDA) Letters read on TWiV 652 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv

Daniel Griffin provides a clinical report on COVID-19, then former FDA Chief of Staff to the Commissioner Denise Esposito joins us to explain the challenges in approving vaccines, antiviral drugs, and diagnostic tests during a pandemic, followed by answers to listener questions. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker Guests: Daniel Griffin and Denise Esposito Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Template for at-home, OTC diagnostic tests (FDA) Postdoctoral position in Prasad laboratory (pdf) Rapidtests.org Masks are cool, Miasma t-shirts (CafePress) Letters read on TWiV 651 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv

In this mid-week episode of Earth's Virology Podcast, we analyze SARS-CoV-2 transmission among youths at a summer camp, adaptation to mice by passage, the importance of T cells for recovery from COVID-19, and listener questions. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Travis County indicators dashboard SARS-CoV-2 transmission at an overnight camp (MMWR) Adaptation of SARS-CoV-2 in mice (Science) Acute SARS-CoV-2 infection impairs DC and T cell responses (Imm) Boulder, Columbia, Illinois rapid saliva tests Letter drafts for $1 testing Letters read on TWiV 650 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Science Picks KathyBBC Witness History, Maurice Hilleman 9 minute audio (quotes by Paul Offit) "The fastest vaccine ever developed"And APOD Picture Rocks Sun Dagger Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv

Vincent visits Ohio State University (March 2020) and speaks with Shan-Lu, David, Amanda, Mark, Matt, Chris, and Qiuhong about their careers and their work on retroviruses, hepatitis C virus, coronaviruses, paramyxoviruses, and environmental viruses. Host: Vincent Racaniello Guests: Shan-Lu Liu, David Bisaro, Amanda Panfill, Mark Peeples, Matt Sullivan, Chris Walker, Qiuhong Wang Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode New virus requires international control (Nature) TIM-family proteins inhibit HIV-1 release (PNAS) Designing a HCV vaccine (Curr Op Virol) Attenuated vaccines for RSV in children (J Inf Dis) Plant histone reader suppresses geminivirus infection (J Virol) HTLV-associated malignancy (Curr Op Virol) Coronaviruses in pigs (Curr Op Virol) Marine DNA viral diversity pole to pole (Cell) Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv

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 Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! 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 Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv

In this mid-week TWiV, children under 10 do transmit SARS-CoV-2, why hydroxychloroquine does not work for treating COVID-19, scale-up of diagnostic testing, explanation of LAMP testing, and listener questions. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Children do transmit infection (Emerg Inf Dis) NIH RADx initiative (NEJM) Rockefeller Foundation testing plan HCQ observational study (Int J Inf Dis) Can't kill HCQ (Science Based Medicine) HCQ does not inhibit SARS-CoV-2 in human lung cells (Nature) HCQ does not inhibit SARS-CoV-2 in nonhuman primates (Nature) Shut-down to stop SARS-CoV-2 (WaPo) Racine firefighters doing LAMP (Wired) LAMP (video, webinar, paper 1, paper 2) Letter drafts for $1 testing Letters read on TWiV 647 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Science Picks Kathy - Vertical Farms Fill a Tall Order by Dickson Despommier and APOD Rich - Mars in 4K LIstener Pick Christiane - ZSK - Ich habe Besseres zu tun (Official Video) Drosten Jon - The Logic of Doomsday Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv

From the NIH campus (recorded February 2020) Vincent and Rich meet with Eugene Koonin to discuss his theories on the evolutionary origins of viruses. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Rich Condit Guest: Eugene Koonin Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Virocentricity with Eugene Koonin (TWiV 275) Origin of viruses (Nat Rev) Multiple origins of capsid proteins from cells (PNAS) Origins and evolution of global RNA virome (mBio) Evolution of NCLDV of eukaryotes (Adv Virus Res) Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv

Daniel Griffin provides a clinical report on COVID-19, followed by a review of the State Department document on the Wuhan BSL-4 laboratory, the report on infection of tigers and lions in the Bronx Zoo, and, answers to listener questions. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker Guest: Daniel Griffin Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode State Dept. memo on Wuhan BSL-4 lab (pdf) Biosafety levels (Wikipedia) Inside a BSL-4 (TWiV) From people to panthers (bioRxiv) Letters read on TWiV 645 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv

In this mid-week edition, identifying flawed research before it becomes dangerous, Michigan governor tells America to mask-up, Pfizer mRNA vaccine gets $1.95 billion from Warp Speed, preliminary phase I/II results of the ChAdOx1 SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, answers to listener questions. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker Click arrow to play Download TWiV 644 (69 MB .mp3, 115 min) Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode US COVID-19 cases (NY Times) Identify flawed research before it is dangerous (NY Times) Mask up, America! (NY Times) $1.95 billion to Pfizer (NY Times) Phase I trial of Pfizer mRNA vaccine (medRxiv) Phase I/II trial of ChAdOx1 vaccine (Lancet) Rockefeller Foundation testing plan TWiV 640 on MedCram Letter drafts for $1 testing Letters read on TWiV 644 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv