This week, not for the first, time I listened to your mini rants about the noise of leaf blowers, but have you considered the potential for these damnable devices to spread dangerous microbes in addition to the health harming noise and 2.5 particulate both from the inefficient engines and the material being blown? Consider the composition of the vast amounts of particulate and how much is from sources such as fecal mater. Studies show this stuff remains in the air up to 3 days. Speaking of transferring h1 n1 from birds to pigs you say “if it gets in their snout”, is this a way that can happen? I would like to hear your thoughts on the potential spread of disease by these machines. I live in a condo development surrounded by more of same and the lawn maintenance contractors employ them nearly all day everyday.

The 16 August 2024 episode really helped us with a new case, in the family home, of COVID-19. The recent Long Covid episode was enlightening for a work situation. Just pressed pause and made another donation. TWIV is lifesaving.

I’m a new listener. Was excited at first but realized it is mainly big government leftist talk masquerading as virus information. I’m out.

These guys are so condescending. They also cling to group think. There is a strong current of refusal to consider possible ideas and theories other than their own.

I really liked a recent episode that described Katie’s KATALYST framework for Transformational leadership. It describes 8 competencies that Operational Excellence and other Transformational leaders should aspire to get better at. Many of these I found myself agreeing with during the episode and realized that I have focused on them without crystallizing them as Katies has done. I can see using this frame work to improve myself and as a coaching mechanism for my team and leaders that I coach. Clearly I might be biased since Katie also referred to our upcoming episode together, but I really liked this episode with that reference not with standing. I’m looking forward to how Katie connects and explores this topic in future episodes. If you’re newly looking into this podcast, I would highly recommend it to anyone trying to get better as a leader.

Especially when Dickson is on the show. All his spontaneous comments, chuckles…

I really listen to hear Vincent’s puns and asides, such as when he learned that horses are closest to bats biologically he exclaimed “ you mean Pegasus was real?“. How can one not listen after that! And the science is OK too.

I have been listening to TWiV since 2015. It helped me understand some of the basic and advanced concept in Virology on top of keeping me up to date with some of the new literature in the field. Thank you Racaniello et al!

This is a priceless example of people giving their time to explain a subject of increasing relevance but that is completely unsuited to summarization. Hugely informative and wide ranging discussions, a real gem. Good for people who are interested such subjects as global health, autoimmune diseases, and ecology.

I’m particularly fond of episodes with the various panel experts interacting, respecting and liking one another, and discussing papers I would never read and probably wouldn’t understand if I tried. The clinical updates with Daniell Griffin are great, too. I wish he would say “go ahead and…” less often, but he’s still lovable. The extended interviews with outside experts vary, especially those with just Vincent and the interviewees. I miss the banter. Still, my podcast week revolves around this show. The rest of the MicrobeTV shows are worth a listen, too.

For keeping me same during the pandemic

I received my masters in molecular pathology from Texas Tech health science, center program. A one-year masters that allows you to get ASCP (MB) certified. Combining one year of class room with one year of clinical laboratory experience running Texas techs CTNG testing.

The most recent episode and the hosts’ outright rude dismissal of the lab leak hypothesis shows me these are nothing but zealots looking to push a narrative, instead of remaining open minded and following the data. When they dismiss lab leak by saying “The idea of Covid being transported on frozen goods to China has about as much evidence as lab leak” , you know they aren’t serious objective observers of science. How unfortunate, I liked this podcast but if they want to be pig headed, then they can remain an obscure podcast. Plenty of podcasts out there able to maintain respectable discourse. Sad.

Hey eddy from Boston, Thanks for Dickson, 5 star. Would love to know Dicksons pick for best jazz pianist? Oh I can hear his head spinning on that one. Also Vince, Clara Schumann was arguably the best female instrumentalist and composer in the history of classical music cuz I heard your question why the females don’t have the shoutouts so I give a big shoutout to Clara Schumann.

Please interview Robert Redfield to put the lab leak theory to bed. The ‘Sars Co-V 2 virus came from nature’ is beginning to look like a ‘Jeffery Epstein killed himself’ story.

I really enjoy the podcast and continue to learn, however, I feel that by becoming enmeshed in the debate over the origins of the SARS CoV 2 virus you are setting yourself up for a trap. There is more and more evidence emerging that raises doubt about the true origin and I feel that to sync your credibility on the fact that the virus occurs spontaneously in nature, as opposed to being associated with the Wuhan virology lab, could discredit you at a level beyond all of the good you were doing with education of the public.

I’ve been an avid listener since the beginning of the COVID pandemic and am thankful to the entire group at TWiV for continuing to educate us with science. TWiV had kept me sane when discussing the pandemic with kith and kin. The hosts all have an ease of banter and even though mostly they’re interacting via screens, the camaraderie amongst them is lovely. Thank you for continuing to proselytize the science!

I love everyone and they bring so much knowledge to the world of viruses to everyone. As an Emt on the front line of covid 19 and working on my bachelors degree in biology, and doing anything I can. This group is amazing and the break every concept down to the biological aspect, to the complex. Thank you guys so much, and much love from the South shore Ma…….also I can’t remember the twiV episode, but Vicent talked about hers, I will have to say you guys are my hero’s. Especially when you get the inside jokes for Vincent rack in yelling, or when you get science and politics you get “politics”, and when you get science, you get “science”..

Updated to add: The time spent with Dr. Paul Offit is the most valuable time spent lately. He thoroughly explains his analysis of the data, critically views the bureaucracy he operates within, and lives the oath “do no harm”. I listen to every clinical update from Dr. Griffin. However, the absurdity of his comment about us “thanking” the Chinese for bringing COVID to our attention is beyond the pale.

I’ve been a listener for several years and am finally getting to writing a review. I have learned so much about virology and microbiology from you. The banter between the team is also great. Please keep up the excellent work!

Outstanding evidence based podcast. I look forward to the weekly clinical updates! Provides excellent clinical data in an easy to understand manner. Thanks so much and please keep up the fantastic work. This podcast helps us stay updated on the facts and to provide solid clinical advice to our patients. As a bonus, its also just fun to listen to!

I've listened to a lot of podcasts about Covid-19, but I've learned the most from This Week in Virology. In the last few months they've pivoted away from 100% coverage of Covid-19 news, but their discussion of the latest scientific research is fascinating and free of a lot of the culture war bias found elsewhere. The first few minutes of each episode is a bit weird as each host introduces themselves and describes current weather conditions, but it's quirks like that which make the show so relatable even if much of the content goes over my head. The clinical update they do ever Saturday is especially interesting to get a sense of what the safety tradeoffs look like for different populations.

If you can navigate the fear porn, it’s a great podcast. I can’t believe the number of times they’ve said “over 800 kids have died”… there have, at the time of writing, less than 20 kids (aged 0-19) who have died with no comorbidity. Quit stressing people out and just report the facts.

I notice when Dr Daniel was advising a listener about giving her incredibly low risk son a booster (!) he invoked the advice of Paul Offit without mentioning that Offit advised his own son not to get boosted due to the myocarditis risk. Good for you Dr. D, keep pushing the party propaganda

Thank you for your continuing episodes about Covid-19 and the still-emerging scientific data. You’ve been the best resource I’ve found for timely updates and frank discussions about what we know and still don’t know, and I’ve enjoyed hearing everyone’s thoughts on new research as so many papers have been released “into the wild”.

I am a left-leaning scientist and try to listen to these folks, but every. single. time. they turn me off by deviating into some partisan rant. Today I listened to their interview with Paul Offit, and it was all good and factual and fine until they went on a ten-minute rant in the middle about the horrible unvaccinated people and how they can’t possibly be rational…then the hosts went back to explaining how the push to mandate boosters is unsupported by evidence. If you can’t see the relationship between these two topics, perhaps you ought to seriously consider your biases. At the very least, stick to the science, and keep your Upper West Side political opinions to yourselves.

Discovered you during the beginning of the pandemic. I’m (just) a research technician currently in pediatric immunology and autophagy in St. Louis but I’m very much enjoying relearning virology by listening to your updates and reviews! I refer everyone to listen to your podcasts. I’m unfortunately sidelined with a broken ankle from my lab (didn’t happen at work!) but I have you guys to keep me up to date! Thank you again!

Thanks so much for your hard work educating everyone! All the hosts are so fun to listen to and add so much insight. I am a primary care doc and discovered you during the pandemic and have found you all and Daniel such a great resource! I recommend all my colleagues to listen and love going back to some basic science roots and journal club (even non-covid topics!)

I’m a microbiologist (not a virologist) so this show is great for learning some basic and advanced virology. The host and guests do a great job providing frequent briefs on the current state of the pandemic and coronavirus biology (as well as other viruses occasionally). It’s saddening to see many negative reviews from misinformed people and “YouTube scientists” who believe they have a better grasp on the subject than the panel of experts. One negative - I have listened to many episodes and until recently listened to one with Amy. I found her to generally be disruptive and confrontational (not the normal vibe of the show). This made it much harder to listen to, harder to extract information, and would likely skip episodes with her in the future.

I wait for new episodes eagerly. As many others have said, it has helped to keep me sane for the past 20 months. I am an historian/social scientist, but gradually able to grasp more and more of your research analyses. I greatly enjoy the team’s interaction, including the banter. Can’t really say enough about you all. Thank you. Priscilla

You guys are a RIOT!! Scolding me for pleading with you to stop Daniel in his poetic tracks and address reality? LOVE IT!

I think Vincent should stick to Virology and not politics. I resent his arrogance as he is neither educated in or has any real world work experience in the politics and economics he is so eager to push in his podcast, especially when he is surrounded with others that also have no real experience other than the post modernist thinking of the university. If he wants to bandstand his politics in his podcast, he should have the guts to have Ben Shapiro as a guest He might just end up reevaluating his hubris in light of someone who actually can defend his stance with facts. What do you say Vince???

It’s a podcast by virologists that can’t resist being political, even as they complain about politics (which is… duh, being political). Solid research with little interest in exploring the more speculative areas of science and more interested in work that supports the state—which is fine, that’s what this pod does. The snarky attitude (particularly the constant “okay?!” dude) gets tiresome after awhile. But their knowledge did help me get through the first year of the pandemic and I’m grateful for that.

How can a person tell if someone is telling the truth or not? They discuss the entire realm of the results of the jab takers. These Fauci agents never discuss the 10’s of thousands of deaths from the jabs. They never discuss the millions of serious hospitalizations from the jabs. They never discuss the disabilities caused by the jabs. They never interview Sucharit Bhakdi, John O’Looney, Geert Vanden Bossche, Michael Yeadon, Roger Hodkinson, Wolfgang Wodarg, Suneel Dhand, Peter McCullough, Magnus Burling. These people pull back the curtain of Oz & expose big pharma’s criminality.

Huge thanks to Vincent, the team and guests who put so much effort into this platform! I learn so much and find the discussion engaging. I’m a microbiologist but a bacterial specialist, but for the past decade I’ve gotten into bacteriophage research and now that’s my team’s focus (so I guess I’m a viral guy too now). I have learned a great deal from this podcast and have been led to a lot of super-informative papers by it. And gargantuan kudos for the way the podcast has addressed the COVID-19 pandemic! It’s been such an important service and I hope more and more folks are following!!

This is a terrific science based podcast. Very informative and the light banter is entertaining. If you want to learn about viruses and more, this it.

I appreciate the information and the multiple episodes each week. So glad I found this podcast. Thank you!

I don’t know why Ivermectin deserves the same ridicule that occurs on infotainment shows from serious scientists. I don’t know why serious people aren’t hoping for Ivermectin to be the drug that some people already think it is. It really seems like the hosts of this show are actively rooting against it. Scientists shouldn’t be heaping derision on the great unwashed. I shouldn’t be able to tell what jersey the hosts are wearing. When did that become acceptable? This shouldn’t be a faculty lounge conversation. Someone on the panel should be steelmanning arguments that others on the panel disagree with. If you wear their jersey and like biased science, this is the podcast for you.

Listen intently. Learning so much. Appreciate guys and gals like you!

Propaganda!

I listened to 6-7 episodes and found highly opinionated, woke, possibly communist China funded mostly mis-information. I was really hoping for unbiased science.

Thank you for this informative, factual, science. You have helped so many understand this pandemic. Your podcast helps us non scientists understand the science behind viruses, treatment and vaccines, and it helps to filter out so much of the noise we are hearing daily from so many contradictory sources.

This podcast is very informative and can be very useful in convincing people to get vaccinated. However, it could be even better the scientists take a few moments to define the many acronyms they use (for example “PID”). The majority of the audience is not made up of virologists so this would be very helpful.

I listened to TWIV when Covid first began and was happy with the level of expertise. However, from onset they would not even discuss the lab leak hypothesis. Not even suggest it as a possibility. These are scientists completely captured by the institutions that fund them. The clinical updates were very informative. Ultimately, how can you take a virology Podcast serious when they don’t have the freedom or maybe dare I say integrity to discuss a “controversial” theory which is most likely true….

Thank you!

From the beginning of the pandemic they where dismissive of the virus to begin with and to not even talk about gain of function research they keep harping that we can’t make a virus like this which is true but gain of function uses the viruses natural ability to evolve itself when passed though humans tissues

This group of researchers with varying backgrounds has taught me a lot about various aspects of virology and has been especially helpful in keeping me up to date with the latest on the Sars CoV2 pandemic. I enjoy the banter and humor as well as the various guests interviewed and while they’ve covered Covid a lot, there’s a range of topics discussed.

How sad to hear TWIV still sticking to the “lab leak is a conspiracy theory” nonsense and actually had the nerve to bring Peter Daszak on the show. How can we take anything seriously from a man who’s funding and ENTIRE LIFE WORK depends on him saying that this did not come from a Wuhan lab (oh and by the way - say it with a CCP handler standing over his shoulder.) For a year I heard you arrogantly tell your listeners that it was so disgustingly absurd to even suggest this didn't occur naturally, but I will listen no more.

I like your podcast, and your latest episode on the lab leak hypothesis was informative. However, I only have one real criticism. It was mentioned that you were dismayed that Facebook was not BLOCKING the lab leak “hypothesis” anymore. A word of caution. Information, no matter how crazy or antithetical to your mind should not be blocked. Good science is not made better by limiting “crazy” ideas in leu of the prevailing thought. Future scientific discovery WILL be limited by not allowing people to vocalize these thoughts. It is good to be forced to support your hypothesis with the evidence and communicate it effectively, thereby putting unlikely hypotheses to rest.

Kyle nj - really?