episode 952: Jake Scott put the ID in COVID-19
Infectious Disease physician Jake Scott joins TWiV to provide a west coast clinical perspective on the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic with respect to the impact of vaccines, antivirals, variants of concern and mortality.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
Guest: Jake Scott
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- Omicron variant reproduction ex vivo (Nature)
- Clinical outcomes with Omicron (Nat Med)
- Low neutralizing antibodies induced by bivalent booster (NEJM)
- Antibody responses to bivalent booster (bioRxiV)
- Spike T cell responses not enhanced by bivalent booster (Sci Immunol)
- Pandemic end will not be televised (BMJ)
- Conflation of infection and disease (Twitter)
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
Kathy – 10 moments for Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Residency (Item 7) and Alan’s pick from TWiV 931 The Kissing Bug by Daisy Hernandez
Rich – Wilderness Safaris Photographic Competition 2022
Alan – Massachusetts Science Education Leadership Association, and the talk I gave to them last week
Vincent – Andrea Camillieri and his protagonist Inspector Montalbano
Frank – Economics for the Future: Beyond the Superorganism
Debby – As routine vaccination rates fall, polio survivor hopes her story reverses urgent trend
Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees
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