TWiV 705: Rocky Mountain COVID with Emily Travanty
Emily Travanty from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment joins TWiV to discuss how her laboratory was the first in the US to detect the SARS-CoV-2 variant VOC 202012/01.
Hosts:\xa0Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker
Guest: Emily Travanty
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Links for this episode- VOC detected in Colorado (WaPo)
- US has sequenced only 50,000 SARS-CoV-2 genomes (CDC)
- Human CoV evolves to escape immunity (bioRxiv)
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
Dickson \u2013 Randal Despommier on saxophone
Brianne \u2013 Giant Microbes SARS-CoV2
Alan \u2013 West of Loathing
Rich \u2013 Draft landscape of COVID-19 candidate vaccines
Vincent \u2013 SARS-CoV-2 spillover events
Daniel \u2013 His Vaccine Story Inspired His Father To Write A Disney Classic
Intro music is by\xa0Ronald Jenkees
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