TWiV 705: Rocky Mountain COVID with Emily Travanty

Emily Travanty from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment joins TWiV to discuss how her laboratory was the first in the US to detect the SARS-CoV-2 variant VOC 202012/01.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker

Guest: Emily Travanty

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Links for this episode

• VOC detected in Colorado (WaPo)
• US has sequenced only 50,000 SARS-CoV-2 genomes (CDC)
• Human CoV evolves to escape immunity (bioRxiv)
• Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to [email protected]