Supershedders and super vaccines This Week in Virology

TWiV reveals that 2% of SARS-CoV-2−positive individuals carry 90% of the virus circulating in a college campus, and a nanoparticle vaccine that induces cross-reactive immunity against multiple pandemic and pre-emergent coronaviruses.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker
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Links for this episode ASV vaccine town halls 2% of SARS-CoV-2 positives carry most viral RNA (PNAS) Pan-coronavirus nanoparticle vaccine (Nature) Why HIV-1 particles have few spikes (PLoS Path) Letters read on TWiV 757 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Brianne – Darwin’s Arch Collapses
Kathy – The woman who discovered the first coronavirus
Rich – “Richard Feynman: The pleasure of finding things out”
Vincent – CORONA Project
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Alan – Liftoff by Eric Berger
Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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