This is your brain on SARS-CoV-2 This Week in Virology

TWiV reviews the difficulties in predicting species susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection by only examining the ACE2 protein, and the olfactory mucosa as a portal of entry into the central nervous system in COVID-19 patients.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit
Guest: Amy Rosenfeld
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Links for this episode NYC will create pandemic response institute (NY Bus J) Comparison of ACE2 in vertebrates (PNAS) Olfactory transmucosal invasion of CNS by SARS-CoV-2 (Nat Neurosci) Letters read on TWiV 690 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Science Picks Dickson – National Geographic best animal photos of 2020
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Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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