TWiV 673: Wake up and smell the pandemic

Daniel Griffin provides a clinical report on COVID-19, we debunk the Great Barrington Declaration, and discuss smell and taste changes as early indicators of the pandemic, vascular disease and thrombosis in SARS-CoV-2 infected humans and rhesus macaques, and the ability of the swine pathogen SADS-CoV to infect human respiratory tract cells.

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Links for this episode

• Daniel's COVID-19 testing strategy calculator (and medRxiv preprint)
• US COVID-19 mortality rates (JAMA)
• Final remdesivir report (NEJM)
• Hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 (NEJM)
• Tech position with Dr. Rosenfeld
• Biological safety officer position at CUMC
• Support MicrobeTV at Parasites Without Borders
• Smell and taste changes as early pandemic indicators (Nat Comm)
• Vascular disease and thrombosis in SARS-CoV-2 infected macaques (Cell)
• SADS-CoV can infect human airway cells (PNAS)
• Letters read on TWiV 673
• Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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