TWiV 948: Breathless with David Quammen
David Quammen returns to TWiV to discuss how he wrote his new book 'Breathless', a story about the science and the scientists behind the race to understand the pandemic coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - October 23, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology Breathless coronavirus COVID-19 david quammen genome sequence pandemic SARS-CoV-2 vaccine viral viruses Source Type: blogs
TWiV 947: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update Dr. Griffin discusses the prediction of upcoming global infection burden of influenza seasons after relaxation of public health and social measures during the COVID-19 pandemic, severe COVID-19 outcomes after full vaccination of primary schedule and initial boosters, and how successful immunomodulators for treatment of COVID-19 have opened the pathway for comparative trials. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - October 22, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology antiviral coronavirus COVID-19 delta inflammation influenza Long Covid marburg virus monkeypox monoclonal antibody Omicron pandemic poliovirus SARS-CoV-2 vaccine vaccine booster variant of concern Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Did the Dog Eat Professor Crawley ’ s Seven Missing Corrections?
By David Tuller, DrPH *October is crowdfunding month at UC Berkeley. If you like my work, consider making a tax-deductible donation to Berkeley’s School of Public Health to support the Trial By Error: project: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/33528 On October 5th, I got an e-mail from the Health Research Authority in relation to the concerns I had raised with […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - October 16, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Bristol Crawley Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Did the Dog Eat Professor Crawley ’ s Seven Missing Corrections?
By David Tuller, DrPH *October is crowdfunding month at UC Berkeley. If you like my work, consider making a tax-deductible donation to Berkeley’s School of Public Health to support the Trial By Error: project: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/33528 UPDATE on October 25th: To ensure a more complete record of my correspondence with the HRA, I have added to the … Trial By Error: Did the Dog Eat Professor Crawley’s Seven Missing Corrections? Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - October 16, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: David Tuller ME/CFS Bristol Crawley Source Type: blogs
TWiV 946: Poo vs flu
Angela Mingarelli joins TWiV to discuss whether the gut microbiota of bats confers tolerance to influenza virus infection in mice, and primate hemorrhagic fever-causing arteriviruses that can reproduce in human cells and might be capable of infecting humans. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - October 16, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology arterivirus bat fecal microbiome simian hemorrhagic fever virus spillover viral viruses Source Type: blogs
TWiV 945: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update Dr. Griffin discusses a healthcare-associated infection with Monkeypox virus, air and surface sampling for monkeypox virus in a UK hospital, misrepresentation and nonadherence regarding COVID19 public health measures, tolerability and immunogenicity of an intranasally-administered adenovirus-vectored COVID-19 vaccine, clinical, virologic, and immunologic evaluation of symptomatic rebound following Nirmatrelvir/Ritonavir treatment, early outpatient treatment with Eemdesivir in patients at high risk for severe COVID-19, Molnupiravir plus usual care versus usual care alone as early treatme...
Source: virology blog - October 15, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology antiviral coronavirus COVID-19 delta inflammation influenza Long Covid marburg virus monkeypox monoclonal antibody Omicron pandemic poliovirus SARS-CoV-2 vaccine vaccine booster variant of concern Source Type: blogs
The college football fans that beat COVID and the experts that couldn ’t
BY ANISH KOKA
The COVID pandemic was supposed to herald the end of the idea that a smaller government is a better government. The experts who desperately seek to be in charge of a sprawling bureaucratic state told us that it was only a powerful central authority that could do what was needed to safeguard individual liberties at a time when a highly contagious respiratory virus was spreading across the globe.
New Zealand may have imposed draconian policies that did not even allow its own citizens to return, but scenes of cheering unmasked New Zealanders stood in sharp contrast to empty seats in American stadiums when ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 12, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy College Football New Zealand Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Cindy Bateman and OMF Seek to Boost Medical Education About ME/CFS and Related Illnesses
By David Tuller, DrPH *October is crowdfunding month at UC Berkeley. If you like my work, consider making a tax-deductible donation to Berkeley’s School of Public Health to support the Trial By Error: project: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/33528 Medical education in the US has not generally included accurate information about ME/CFS. If medical students learned anything at all about […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - October 12, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Bateman medical education Open Medicine Foundation Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Cindy Bateman and OMF Seek to Boost Medical Education About ME/CFS and Related Illnesses
By David Tuller, DrPH *October is crowdfunding month at UC Berkeley. If you like my work, consider making a tax-deductible donation to Berkeley’s School of Public Health to support the Trial By Error: project: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/33528 Medical education in the US has not generally included accurate information about ME/CFS. If medical students learned anything at all about … Trial By Error: Cindy Bateman and OMF Seek to Boost Medical Education About ME/CFS and Related Illnesses Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - October 12, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: David Tuller ME/CFS Bateman medical education Open Medicine Foundation Source Type: blogs
TWiV 944: Hacking through Borneo with Kathryn Hanley
Kathryn Hanley joins TWiV to discuss her career and the research in her laboratory on the molecular biology, evolution and ecology of emerging RNA viruses and their insect vectors. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - October 9, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology arbovirus blackfly deforestation dengue virus emergence spillover vesicular stomatitis virus viral viruses vsv West Nile virus Source Type: blogs
TWiV 943: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update Dr. Griffin discusses high points of the multi-national monkeypox outbreaks, monkeypox virus genome mutations, possible occupational infection of healthcare workers with monkeypox virus, rates of monkeypox cases by vaccination status, protection of SARS-CoV-2 infection against reinfection, Paxlovid significantly reduces COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths, and rebound in COVID19 with and without Paxlovid treatment. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - October 8, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology antiviral coronavirus COVID-19 delta inflammation influenza Long Covid marburg virus monkeypox monoclonal antibody Omicron pandemic poliovirus SARS-CoV-2 vaccine vaccine booster variant of concern Source Type: blogs
