TWiV reviews susceptibility to vaccine-preventable infections in asylum seekers, the economic power of vaccines, French university tries to bury its investigation of a faculty member’s ethical lapses, transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in New Zealand before and after COVID-19, and a germ line encoded antibody that recognizes a broad array of enveloped viruses.

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

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Susceptibility to infections in asylum seekers (NEJM)
RSV hospitalization in adults (JAMA Net Open)
Ethics failings at French university (Science)
RSV transmission in New Zealand (Nat Commun)
Glycan reactive IgM binds multiple viruses (SciImmunol)
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