TWiV reviews remarkable changes in the epidemiology of avian H5N1 influenza virus leading to previously uninfected areas, involvement of previously unaffected wild birds, and devastating outbreaks in farmed poultry, and isolation of a monoclonal antibody against the influenza virus neuraminidase that inhibits infection with a wide range of A and B isolates. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello , Alan Dove , Rich Condit , Kathy Spindler , and Angela Mingarelli Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts , Google Podca...
Jun 04, 2023•1 hr 56 min•Ep. 1013
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses the potential for recurrent Mpox outbreaks among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men, association between SARS-CoV-2 variants and frequency of acute symptoms, prospective study of key correlates for household transmission of SARS-CoV-2, Pfizer's PAXLOVID™ receiving FDA approval for adult patients at high risk of progression to severe COVID-19, efficacy and safety of antimicrobial stewardship prospective audit and feedback in pat...
Jun 03, 2023•38 min•Ep. 1012
Vincent travels to Québec City, Canada and the 11th Aquatic Virus Workshop, where he speaks with Fred Aylward and Jed Furman about the research of their laboratories on the ecology and evolution of aquatic viruses and their microbial communities. Host: Vincent Racaniello Guests: F rank Aylward and Jed Fuhrman Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , RSS , email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server 11th Aquatic Virus Workshop Endogenization of giant...
May 28, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 1011
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses the CDC HIV surveillance report, FDA voted in favor of approving the Abrysvo vaccine, canine olfactory detection of SARS-CoV-2-infected humans, safety of the BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccine in children aged 5 to 17 years, and statement on the antigen composition of COVID-19 vaccines. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , RSS , email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode HIV surveillance report (CDC) FDA voted in favor of app...
May 27, 2023•36 min•Ep. 1010
Vincent travels to Montreux, Switzerland and the 16th International Nidovirus Symposium, where he speaks with Maria von Kerkhove, the face of COVID-19 for the World Health Organization, and Kanta Subbarao, Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Influenza in Melbourne. Host: Vincent Racaniello Guests: Kanta Subbarao and Maria von Kerkhove Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , RSS , email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server Nidovirus Symposi...
May 21, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 1009
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses variant specific clinical performance of a SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen test with focus on omicron VOC, ventilation in buildings, COVID-19 mortality among selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor users, risk of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection associated with pre-coronavirus disease obstructive sleep apnea diagnoses, trajectories of the evolution of post COVID-19 condition, and efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy targeting severe fat...
May 20, 2023•32 min•Ep. 1008
TWiV explains genetic changes in nOPV2 strains that paralyzed children, outbreak of raccoon distemper in Toronto, EcoHealth Alliance gets its NIH grant back, and breakage at chromosomal fragile sites caused by the EBNA1 protein of Epstein-Barr virus as a mechanism for carcinogenesis. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello , Rich Condit , Kathy Spindler , and Angela Mingarelli Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , RSS , email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Register for ASV 2023...
May 14, 2023•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 1007
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses immunogenicity and tolerability of a bivalent virus-like particle norovirus vaccine candidate in children from 6 months up to 4 years of age, influenza hemagglutinin stem nanoparticle vaccine induces cross-group 1 neutralizing antibodies in healthy adults, COVID-19 surveillance after expiration of the public health emergency declaration, provisional mortality data, targeted vaccine messaging to promote COVID-19 vaccines for children and youth,...
May 13, 2023•43 min•Ep. 1006
TWiV reveals plankton-infecting relatives of herpesviruses in the sunlit oceans, and a vaccine encoding non-spike T cell antigens that protects animals from severe SARS-CoV-2 infection. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello , Alan Dove , Kathy Spindler , and Brianne Barker Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , RSS , email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Register for ASV 2023 Research assistant position at FDA ( pdf ) MicrobeTV Discord Server Mirusviruses link herpesvirus to gi...
May 07, 2023•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 1005
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approving Arexvy: the first respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine approved for use in the United State, association between SARS-CoV-2 and metagenomic content of samples from the Huanan Seafood Market, researchers disagree over how bad it is to be reinfected and whether COVID-19 can cause lasting changes to the immune system, virtual care and emergency department use during the COVID-19 pandemic among ...
May 06, 2023•53 min•Ep. 1004
Vincent and Kathy travel to Atlanta for APHL ID Lab Con, a conference focused on the latest developments in detection and characterization of infectious diseases of public health concern, and speak with Megan, Ryan, and Kirsten about the workings of public health and clinical laboratories. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Kathy Spindler Guests: Megan Crumpler , Ryan Relich , and Kirsten St. George Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , RSS , email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for ...
Apr 30, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 1003
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses completeness and spin of medRxiv preprints and associated published abstracts of COVID-19 randomized clinical trials, lessons learned from a COVID-19 dog screening pilot in California K-12 schools, SARS-CoV-2 reinfection and severity of the disease, effectiveness of COVID-19 bivalent vaccine, Molnupiravir and risk of post-acute sequelae of COVID-19, risk of new-onset long Covid following reinfection with SARS-CoV-2, low vitamin D levels associ...
Apr 29, 2023•44 min•Ep. 1002
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses an update on vaccine-derived poliovirus outbreaks, how the dream of wiping out polio might need a rethink, risk of death in patients hospitalized for COVID-19 vs seasonal Influenza in fall-winter, French Mpox cluster includes fully vaccinated patients, two individuals with potential Mpox virus reinfection, epidemiologic and clinical features of Mpox-associated deaths, FDA authorizes changes to simplify use of bivalent mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, S...
Apr 23, 2023•54 min•Ep. 1001
The entire TWiV team gathers at a theatre in New York City to celebrate a milestone in science podcasting, to reminisce how they joined the show, and to play a game of TWiV Jeopardy. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello , Dickson Despommier , Alan Dove , Rich Condit , Kathy Spindler , Brianne Barker , Daniel Griffin , and Angela Mingarelli Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , RSS , email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode TWiV #1: West Nile virus TWiV #100: TWiV catches a big f...
Apr 23, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 1000
TWiV notes Ashish Jha's call for doctors to combat a vacuum of medical information while ignoring our contributions, China CDC's surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 at the Huanan Seafood Market, and an experimental infectious attenuated COVID-19 vaccine that elicits superior mucosal and systemic immunity in hamsters. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello , Dickson Despommier , Alan Dove , Kathy Spindler , and Brianne Barker Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , RSS , email Become a patron of TWiV! Lin...
Apr 09, 2023•1 hr 55 min•Ep. 999
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses the White House COVID adviser calling on doctors to combat a vacuum of medical information, adeno-associated virus type 2 in US children with acute severe hepatitis, genomic investigations of unexplained acute hepatitis in children, surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 at the Huanan seafood market, vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization among adolescent and pediatric SARS-CoV-2 cases between May 2021 and January 2022 in Canada, effectiveness of B...
Apr 08, 2023•52 min•Ep. 998
Mohsan joins TWiV to discuss the work of his laboratory showing that spike and nsp6 are determinants of Omicron attenuation, and why the work was widely misinterpreted by the press and the public. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello , Alan Dove , and Rich Condit Guest: Mohsan Saeed Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , RSS , email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode •Register for ASV 2023 • MicrobeTV Discord Server • Spike and nsp6 determinants of Omicron attenuation (Nature) •C...
Apr 02, 2023•1 hr 55 min•Ep. 997
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses how antibiotics don't reduce risk of death from viral respiratory infections, norovirus infections continue to rise in the US, ABO blood types and SARS-CoV-2 infection assessed using seroprevalence data in a large population-based sample, maternal third dose of BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine and risk of infant COVID-19 hospitalization, association of treatment with Nirmatrelvir and the risk of Post–COVID-19 condition, mechanically ventilated patients w...
Apr 01, 2023•40 min•Ep. 996
TWiV discusses genetic evidence of susceptible wildlife in SARS-CoV-2 positive samples at the Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market, polio cases in African linked to a new polio vaccine that was designed to not cause the disease, and structural conservation of hepatitis B virus capsid proteins over millions of years despite a shift from a naked to an enveloped capsid. Click arrow to play Download TWiV 995 (74 MB .mp3, 123 min) Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , RSS , email Become a p...
Mar 26, 2023•2 hr 3 min•Ep. 995
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses the detection of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the novel oral polio vaccine type 2 story, prior COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of newly diagnosed erectile dysfunction, adverse maternal, fetal, and newborn outcomes among pregnant women with SARS-CoV-2 infection, correlates of protection against COVID-19 infection and intensity of symptomatic disease in vacci...
Mar 25, 2023•43 min•Ep. 994
TWiV reveals how treatment with remdesivir for COVID-19 resolved a chronic poliovirus infection in an immunocompromised patient, and the finding that infection with SARS-CoV-2 leads to an increase in new and preexisting autoantibodies. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , RSS , email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode •Register for ASV 2023 • MicrobeTV Discord Server •Janet Sinsheimer on TWiV 653 •Clearance of chronic poliovirus infection by remdesivir (Front Immunol...
Mar 19, 2023•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 993
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses clearance of longstanding, immune-deficiency-associated, vaccine-derived poliovirus infection following remdesivir therapy for chronic SARS-CoV-2 infection, SARS-CoV-2 exposure in New York City rats, clinical characteristics and outcomes of children with SARS-CoV-2 infection during the Delta and Omicron variant-dominant periods in Korea, exhaled breath aerosol shedding of SARS-CoV-2 variants, outpatient treatment of COVID-19 and the developmen...
Mar 18, 2023•32 min•Ep. 992
On this episode of TWiV, the observation that the 1918 influenza virus is not lethal in nonhuman primates and implications for studies on viral virulence, and mRNA vaccines that control and resolve human papillomavirus-associated cancers in mice. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , RSS , email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode •Register for ASV 2023 • MicrobeTV Discord Server •1918 influenza virus not lethal in nonhuman primates (J Virol) •mRNA vaccines control HPV...
Mar 12, 2023•2 hr 4 min•Ep. 991
In his weekly clinical update Dr. Griffin discusses confronting the evolution and expansion of anti-vaccine activism in the USA in the COVID-19 era, the effectiveness of maternal Influenza vaccination in Peru, characteristics and predictors of persistent symptoms post-COVID-19 in children and young people, parental nonadherence to health policy recommendations for prevention of COVID-19 transmission among children, community-onset bacterial coinfection in children critically ill with SARS-CoV-2 ...
Mar 11, 2023•29 min•Ep. 990
TWiV to explains a study on presence of COVID-19 vaccine mRNA in the blood, and the isolation of cross-protective monoclonal antibodies against common endemic respiratory viruses. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , RSS , email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode •Register for ASV 2023 • MicrobeTV Discord Server • Paul Berg obituary •Spike mRNA in blood (J Path Micro Imm) •Spike mRNA in blood (Biomedicine) • Cross-protective mAbs against respiratory viruses (Nat Comm...
Mar 05, 2023•1 hr 52 min•Ep. 989
In his weekly clinical update Dr. Griffin discusses FDA authorizing the first over-the-counter at-home test to detect both influenza and COVID-19, monoclonal antibody for the prevention of respiratory syncytial virus infection in infants and children, epidemiologic characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 recombinant variant XBB.1.5, COVID-19 vaccines vs pediatric hospitalization, maternal SARS-CoV-2 vaccination and infant protection against SARS-CoV-2 during the first six months of life, immunoglobulin, g...
Mar 04, 2023•41 min•Ep. 988
Arturo Casadevall returns to TWiV to explain the use of convalescent plasma to treat COVID-19 patients, and the need to support virology at a time when more regulation of experiments is envisioned. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello , Alan Dove , and Rich Condit Guest: Arturo Casadevall Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , RSS , email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Register for ASV 2023 MicrobeTV Discord Server Early treatment of COVID-19 with convalescent plasma (NEJM) N...
Feb 26, 2023•1 hr 56 min•Ep. 987
In his weekly clinical update Dr. Griffin discusses the efficacy and safety of two RSV vaccines in older adults, health care vaccine mandate remains as some push for an end, past SARS-CoV-2 infection protection against re-infection, a third vaccine dose equalizes the levels of effectiveness and immunogenicity of heterologous or homologous COVID-19 vaccine regimens, Sotrovimab retains activity against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant BQ.1.1 in a non-human primate model, effect of higher-dose Ivermectin...
Feb 25, 2023•43 min•Ep. 986
TWiV reviews an outbreak of Marburg hemorrhagic fever in Equatorial Guinea, wild poliovirus type 3 shedding from a laboratory in the Netherlands, and white-tailed deer as a reservoir for previous SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello , Dickson Despommier , and Rich Condit Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , RSS , email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode •Register for ASV 2023 • MicrobeTV Discord Server • Marburg virus disease outbreak in Equatori...
Feb 19, 2023•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 985
In his weekly clinical update Dr. Griffin discusses the political polarization of COVID-19 treatments among physicians and laypeople in the United States, seven alternatives to evidence-based medicine, Malawi's cholera death toll crosses 1,300 in its deadliest outbreak on record, impact of coronavirus infections on pediatric patients at a tertiary pediatric hospital, maternal mRNA COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy and delta or omicron infection or hospital admission in infants, yes masks red...
Feb 18, 2023•43 min•Ep. 984
