TWiV 1227: How can antibody forget a pandemic?

TWiV reviews the administrations dismantling of the committee
that studies pandemic potential, firing of CDC vaccine advisory
committee and replacing them with unqualified anti-vaxxers,
zoonotic and sustained Mpox spread in Nigeria and Cameroon, and
breadth of influenza A antibody cross-reactivity.


Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Brianne
Barker


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NIH terminates pandemic preparedness
committee (Science)

RFK Jr. fires all ACIP members (CNN)

RFK Jr. names dubious members of new ACIP (NPR)

Zoonotic and sustained Mpox spread in West Africa
(Nature)

Breadth of influenza A antibody
cross-reactivity (Nat Micro)

Letters read on TWiV 1227

Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

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