TWiV 585: The coronavirus epidemic
The TWiVerers continue their coverage of the new coronavirus outbreak in China, as the number of cases increase dramatically and the virus begins person-to-person transmission in other countries.
Hosts:\xa0Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker
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Links for this episode- ASV 2020
- Real time tracking of 2019-nCoV (JHU)
- Estimation of 2019-nCoV R0 (Int J Inf Dis)
- WHO Sitreps on 2019-nCoV
- Coronavirus overtakes SARS (SCMP)
- HHS press conference
- Discovery of 2019-nCoV (bioRxiv)
- Rich CoV genes in bats (PLoS Path)
- Early 2019-nCoV transmission dynamics (NEJM)
- Clinical features of early 2019-nCoV patients (Lancet)
- Remdesvir for MERS-CoV (Nat Commun)
- Transmissibility of 2019-nCoV (Imperial Coll, pdf)
- Comparison of R0 of pathogens (Guardian)
- Forecast of 2019-nCoV (WHO, Univ Hong Kong, pdf)
- Quammen on 2019-nCoV (NY Times)
- Benefits of handwashing (NY Times)
- Asymptomatic 2019-CoV transmission (NEJM)
- Summary of TWiV 584
- Surgical vs N95 masks (JAMA)
- Letters read on TWiV 585
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
Brianne - Pandemic
Alan - Educated by Tara Westover
Rich - Star Trek: Picard
Dickson - Highest Resolution Image Ever Taken of Surface of the Sun
Kathy - Scientists make vampire bats \u2018glow\u2019 to simulate vaccine spread
Vincent - Virology Lectures 2020
Edward - Virus snowflake designs
Anthony - Microbe Hunting Autism to Zika
Intro music is by\xa0Ronald Jenkees.
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