TWiV 765: Potpourri of COVID-19
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TWiV reviews the new nomenclature for SARS-CoV-2 variants, effectiveness of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against variants, modified Moderna vaccine against variants, impact of COVID-19 interventions on influenza in China and the US, and binding of RaTG13 spike protein to ACE2 of multiple species.
Hosts:\\xa0Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker
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Links for this episode
- Updated nomenclature of SARS-CoV-2 variants (WHO)
- Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine effective against alpha variants (Lancet)
- Novavax vaccine effective against beta variants (NEJM)
- Moderna updated vaccine against beta and gamma variants (medRxiv)
- Impact of COVID-19 interventions against influenza (Nat Comm)
- RaTG13 spike binding to various ACE2 proteins (Cell)
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
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Intro music is by\\xa0Ronald Jenkees
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