TWiV 999: Vaccinated to the nines

TWiV notes Ashish Jha's call for doctors to combat a vacuum of medical information while ignoring our contributions, China CDC's surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 at the Huanan Seafood Market, and an experimental infectious attenuated COVID-19 vaccine that elicits superior mucosal and systemic immunity in hamsters.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker

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• Jha ignores TWiV contribution to disseminating science information (STAT)
• Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 at the Huanan Market (Nature)
• Pandas in the Huanan Market? (ArsTechnica)
• Infectious attenuated COVID-19 vaccine candidate (Nature Micro)
• Virus attenuation by codon pair deoptimization (Cell Rep)
• Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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