Crowley, coats, and cross-reactive antibodies This Week in Virology

Daniel Griffin provides a clinical report on COVID-19, Kathleen Crowley explains the role of Environmental Health & Safety departments, update on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in farmed mink, and the presence of pre-existing antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 in unexposed individuals.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker
Guests: Daniel Griffin and Kathleen A. Crowley
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Links for this episode Pfizer vaccine efficacy (Pfizer) Pfizer vaccine (Stat) Distribution of Pfizer vaccine (NY Times) LSTMH vaccine tracker SARS-CoV-2 humans to mink and back in Netherlands (Science) SARS-CoV-2 mink isolates in Denmark (pdf) Preexisting antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 in humans (Science) Letters read on TWiV 681 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Science Picks Dickson – OSIRIS-REx | NASA
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