Rural healthcare in a pandemic
In this episode of the podcast we ’re going to be talking about rural healthcare - and specifically the difficulties that distance, demographics, and funding have introduced into the world’s covid-19 response. Rural regions made vulnerable by limited healthcare infrastructure, lower rates of vaccination, and opposition to gover nment policies are the new frontlines in the pandemic, but support systems have not adjusted to the growing rural needs for health education, testing, vaccination, and treatment.Michael Forster Rothbart, Kata Kar áth, and Lungelo Ndhlovu report from the US, Ecuador, and Zimbabwe (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - March 7, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

Rural healthcare in a pandemic
In this episode of the podcast we’re going to be talking about rural healthcare - and specifically the difficulties that distance, demographics, and funding have introduced into the world’s covid-19 response. Rural regions made vulnerable by limited healthcare infrastructure, lower rates of vaccination, and opposition to government policies are the new frontlines in the pandemic, but support systems have not adjusted to the growing rural needs for health education, testing, vaccination, and treatment. Michael Forster Rothbart, Kata Karáth, and Lungelo Ndhlovu report from the US, Ecuador, and Zimbabwe (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - March 7, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

TWiV 872: COVID-19 clinical update #104 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In COVID-19 clinical update #104, Daniel Griffin reviews effectiveness of mRNA vaccines among children, number of children affected by disease, accuracy of rapid antigen tests, CDC guidance for prevention strategies, monoclonal antibody effectiveness, predicting progression to severe respiratory failure from pneumonia, risk of long COVID after two vaccine doses, and peripheral neuropathy in long COVID. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Vaccine effectiveness 5-11 year olds (medRxiv) Vaccine effectiveness vs ED and UCE 5-12 year olds (medRxiv)...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - March 5, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts

TWiV 871: If the ACE2 fits, ferret
TWiV discusses whether or not Omicron should be designated a new serotype of SARS-CoV-2, and the finding that amino acid changes that adapt SARS-CoV-2 to mink or ferret do not increase fitness in the human airway. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode ABRCMS ePoster Spring Symposium for Emerging Scientists ASV Annual Meeting Registration (ASV) Microbiology & Immunology at LSU Health Is Omicron a new serotype? (Nat Rev Micr) Adaptation of SARS-CoV-2 to mink/ferret (Cell Rep) Letters read on T...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - February 27, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts

TWiV 870: COVID-19 clinical update #103 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In COVID-19 clinical update #102, Daniel Griffin covers immunocompromised people, hospitalization of children, vaccine usage update, Omicron and cross-reactive neutralizing antibodies, reinfection prevents disease in hamsters, repeated infections with endemic coronaviruses, global burden of antimicrobial resistance, ivermectin not protective in hamsters, and Omicron evades therapeutic monoclonals. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode What does society owe immunocompromised people (Atlantic) Prevalence of immunosuppression in US (JAME) Hospitali...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - February 26, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts

JAMA Otolaryngology –Head & Neck Surgery : Association Between COVID-19 Vaccine and Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss
Interview with Ilana Doweck, MD, author of Association Between the BNT162b2 Messenger RNA COVID-19 Vaccine and the Risk of Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss, and Eric J. Formeister, MD, MS, author of Assessment of Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss After COVID-19 Vaccination Hosted by Joseph P. Bradley, MD. (Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews - February 24, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: The JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts

TWiV 869: Epstein-Barr virus and MS, a perfect storm
TWiV reviews epidemiological and experimental evidence that infection with Epstein-Barr virus leads to the production of antibodies against a viral protein that cross-react with a human protein, leading to multiple sclerosis. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode ABRCMS ePoster Spring Symposium for Emerging Scientists ASV Annual Meeting Registration (ASV) Microbiology & Immunology at LSU Health Viremia in human poliomyelitis (J Exp Med) EBV associated with MS (Scienc...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - February 20, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts

TWiV 868: COVID-19 clinical update #102 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In COVID-19 clinical update #102, Daniel Griffin reviews children and COVID, effectiveness of maternal vaccination, vaccines for immunocompromised, primary care physicians and vaccination rates, booster safety among adults, placentitis, azithromycin, oral Nirmatrelvir, Omicron antibody evasion, EUA for bebtelovimab, IL-1 blocking agents, thromboprophylaxis, effectiveness of vaccines against long COVID, and risks of mental health outcomes. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Children and COVID state data (AAP) Effectiveness of maternal vaccina...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - February 19, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts

TWiV 867: I love the smell of vaccines in the morning
TWiV reviews an experimental, intranasally administered SARS-CoV-2 vaccine that utilizes adenovirus vectors to deliver three viral proteins and induces immunity to ancestral and variant isolates. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Dorothy Horstmann (Wikipedia) Intranasal SARS-CoV-2 experimental vaccine (Cell) t-SNE (Wikipedia) Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Kathy – 477-mile-long megaflash lightning in Seattle Times (originally Washington Post) and extra info ...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - February 17, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts

Prevention of Self-harm in Adults With Suicidal Ideation, Symptomatic Omicron and Delta SARS-CoV-2 Infection Following Vaccination, Outcomes of Lung Transplant for COVID-19 ARDS, and more
Editor's Summary by Preeti Malani, MD, Associate Editor of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, for the February 15, 2022, issue. (Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary)
Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary - February 15, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts

TWiV 866: EV antibodies rEVolutionize our thinking
Amy returns to TWiV to discuss her work on the identification of cross-reactive antibody responses among diverse enteroviruses, and the implications for our understanding of viral pathogenesis and seroprevalence studies. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit Brianne Barker, and Amy Rosenfeld Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode ABRCMS ePoster Spring Symposium for Emerging Scientists Cross-reactive enterovirus antibodies (mBio) Poliovirus receptor transgenic mice (virology blog) Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Di...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - February 13, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts

TWiV 865: COVID-19 clinical update #101 with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In COVID-19 clinical update #101, Daniel Griffin discusses children and COVID, human challenge study results, effectiveness of mask use, Omicron boost in macaques, mucosal vaccine candidate, long-term cardiovascular outcomes, and global vaccine perceptions. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Children and COVID state data (AAP) Human challenge study (Res Sq) Effectiveness of mask use (MMWR) Omicron boost in macaques (bioRxiv) Mucosal vaccine candidate (Cell) Long-term cardiovascular outcomes (Nat Med) Global vaccine perceptions (PLoSNTD) Lette...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - February 12, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts

Coronapod: How African scientists are copying Moderna's COVID vaccine
Vaccine inequity continues to be one of the greatest challenges in the pandemic - with only 10% of those in low- and middle-income countries fully vaccinated. One of the biggest hold-ups is a lack of vaccine manufacturing capacity in poorer nations. But now, researchers at the WHO technology-transfer hub have completed the first step in a project aimed at building vaccine manufacturing capacity in the Global South, by successfully replicating Moderna's COVID vaccine without assistance from the US-based biotech company. In this episode of Coronapod, we ask how they did it? What happens next? What the legal ramification...
Source: Nature Podcast - February 11, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts

Coronapod: How African scientists are copying Moderna's COVID vaccine
Vaccine inequity continues to be one of the greatest challenges in the pandemic - with only 10% of those in low- and middle-income countries fully vaccinated. One of the biggest hold-ups is a lack of vaccine manufacturing capacity in poorer nations. But now, researchers at the WHO technology-transfer hub have completed the first step in a project aimed at building vaccine manufacturing capacity in the Global South, by successfully replicating Moderna's COVID vaccine without assistance from the US-based biotech company. In this episode of Coronapod, we ask how they did it? What happens next? What the legal ramification...
Source: Nature Podcast - February 11, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts

TWiV 863: Does this challenge study pass the smell test?
TWiV reviews the results of a study in which 36 volunteers were infected with SARS-CoV-2, and what was learned about the kinetics of virus reproduction in the nose and throat, development of symptoms, and reliability of lateral flow antigen assays. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Vaccine Town Hall (ASV) Columbia University BSL-3 Manager position 3:27 UK SARS-CoV-2 challenge study (Res Sq) U of Pennsylvania smell test (Wikipedia) Letters read on TWiV 863 Timesta...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - February 6, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts