episode 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: Vincent 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 – Randal Despommier on saxophone
Brianne – Giant Microbes SARS-CoV2
Alan – West of Loathing
Rich – Draft landscape of COVID-19 candidate vaccines
Vincent – SARS-CoV-2 spillover events
Daniel – His Vaccine Story Inspired His Father To Write A Disney Classic
Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees
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