TWiV 700: 'Twas COVID and the aerosols
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TWiV reviews additional data on the UK variant of SARS-CoV-2, the distinct variant spreading in South Africa, association of afucosylated antiviral IgG with severe COVID-19, approval of AstraZeneca vaccine in the UK, and winners of the pandemic poem contest.
Hosts:\\xa0Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker
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Links for this episode
- BSL-3 Assistant Manager position
- PHE update #2 (pdf)
- South African variant (medRxiv)
- CDC cautious in conclusions on variant
- Afucosylated IgG and severe COVID-19 (Science)
- AstraZeneca vaccine EUA in UK (BBC)
- Letters read on TWiV 700
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
Weekly Picks
Brianne \\u2013 Ready Player Two
Kathy \\u2013 Bert Hubert\\u2019s Reverse Engineering of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine
Rich \\u2013 Boston Dynamics running robots
Vincent \\u2013 Fever by John Fuller
Intro music is by\\xa0Ronald Jenkees
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