TWiV 675: Forget what you've herd about immunity
Daniel Griffin provides a clinical report on COVID-19, then we discuss Bill Foege\u2019s letter to CDC director Robert Redfield, the false promise of herd immunity for COVID-19, secret blueprints for SARS-CoV-2 vaccine trials released, and neuropilin-1 as a possible entry protein for the virus.
Hosts:\xa0Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker
Guest: Daniel Griffin
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Links for this episode- Excess COVID-19 Deaths by Age and Race and Ethnicity (MMWR)
- Excess COVID-19 deaths (JAMA)
- SARS-CoV-2 transmission (CDC)
- UK challenge trial (Nature)
- Inflammatory cytokine signature for severe COVID-19 (Nature)
- Death in AstraZeneca vaccine trial (Reuters)
- Herpetic Legion \u2013 Reactivation (YouTube)
- Tech position with Dr. Rosenfeld
- Biological safety officer\xa0position at CUMC
- Support MicrobeTV at\xa0Parasites Without Borders
- Foege letter to Redfield (text, NPR article)
- False promise of herd immunity (Nature)
- Secret vaccine plans released (NY Times)
- Neuropilin-1 and SARS-CoV-2 entry (paper one, two)
- Letters read on TWiV 675
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
Dickson \u2013 Nikon Small World Photography Competition
Brianne \u2013 Modeling Herd Immunity for measles
Alan \u2013 Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
Rich \u2013 Boundless Body Radio Bethany and Casey Ruff
Vincent \u2013 The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois
Intro music is by\xa0Ronald Jenkees
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