This Week in Virology is a very accessible podcast hosted by real academic virologists: http://www.microbe.tv/twiv/ http://www.microbe.tv/twiv/ As you can imag

This Week in Virology is a very accessible podcast hosted by real academic virologists: http://www.microbe.tv/twiv/ http://www.microbe.tv/twiv/ As you can imagine, their main topic over the past few weeks has been the new coronavirus. They're very sober and rational about the new virus, but they're pretty clear that it's an extremely serious issue. One issue that they raised in this week's podcast was that work on a SARS vaccine ended years ago. After the virus disappeared, there was no more commercial interest in developing a vaccine against it. Governments should have stepped in and continued research into coronavirus vaccines, but this sort of research is underfunded. The podcast hosts obviously have an interest in saying this, but given the current situation, I don't think anyone can really claim they're wrong!