TWiV 705: Rocky Mountain COVID with Emily Travanty

<p>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.</p> <p>Hosts: <a href= "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Racaniello">Vincent Racaniello,</a> <a href="http://www.trichinella.org/">Dickson Despommier</a>, <a href="http://www.alandove.com/">Alan Dove</a>, <a href= "http://www.mgm.ufl.edu/faculty/faculty-home-pages/condit-richard-c/"> Rich Condit</a>, and <a href= "http://twitter.com/bioprofbarker">Brianne Barker</a></p> <p>Guest: <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-travanty-phd-bb9604a/">Emily Travanty</a></p> <p>Subscribe (free): <a href= "http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=300973784">iTunes</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cDovL3R3aXYubWljcm9iZXdvcmxkLmxpYnN5bnByby5jb20vdHdpdg%3D%3D">Google Podcasts</a>, <a href= "http://twiv.microbeworld.libsynpro.com/twiv">RSS</a>, <a href="http://eepurl.com/Gcw59">email</a></p> <p>Become a <a href= "https://www.microbe.tv/contribute">patron</a> of TWiV!</p> <h3><strong>Links for this episode</strong></h3> <ul> <li>VOC detected in <a href= "https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/coronavirus-variant-colorado-us/2020/12/29/8e6379fc-4a01-11eb-a9f4-0e668b9772ba_story.html"> Colorado</a> (WaPo)</li> <li>US has sequenced only <a href= "https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/scientific-brief-emerging-variant.html"> 50,000 SARS-CoV-2 genomes</a> (CDC)</li> <li>Human CoV evolves to <a href= "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.17.423313v1">escape immunity</a> (bioRxiv)</li> <li>Timestamps by <a href= "http://www.twitter.com/jrrmicro">Jolene</a>. Thanks!</li> </ul> <h3>Weekly Picks</h3> <p><strong>Dickson</strong> – <a href= "https://oim.fanlink.to/SoHoDown">Randal Despommier on saxophone</a><br /> <strong>Brianne</strong> – <a href= "https://www.giantmicrobes.com/us/products/coronavirus.html">Giant Microbes SARS-CoV2</a><br /> <strong>Alan</strong> – <a href="http