218: The lengths SARS-COV-2 will go

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The TWiM team explains how breathing can transmit SARS-CoV-2, and how lack of breathing leads to loss of mitochondria in a multicellular parasitic animal.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Become a</span> <a href= "http://www.microbe.tv/contribute"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">patron</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">of TWiM.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Links for this episode:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/early/2020/05/27/science.abc6197.full.pdf"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Reducing transmission</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">of SARS-CoV-2 (Science)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Why</span> <a href= "https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/14/science/coronavirus-transmission-cough-6-feet-ar-ul.html"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">social distancing</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">is important (NY Times)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Parasite</span> <a href= "https://www.pnas.org/content/117/10/5358"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">without mitochondria</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(PNAS)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Letters read on TWiM 218</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Music used on TWiM is composed and performed by</span> <a href= "http://ronaldjenkees.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ronald Jenkees</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and used with permission.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Send your microbiology questions and comments to twim@microbe.tv</span></p>