Episode Summary

Kostya Chumakov discusses the hypothesis that oral poliovirus vaccine can provide non-specific protection against many other viruses, and might prevent infection with SARS-CoV-2.

Guest: Kostya Chumakov

Links for This Episode

  • Nonpathogenic enteroviruses to prevent human disease (pdf) 6:13
  • OPV for COVID-19 (pdf) 17:56
  • Enteroviruses to prevent human infections (pdf) 7:08
  • Image credit
  • Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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