TWiV 1194: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello reminiscence about Dickson before discussing discharging Ebola patients, another announcement of emergency measures to control polio spread and the third nOPV2 vaccination campaign in Gaza in less than 6 months, the measles outbreak in the US, vaccination campaign for chickens against high pathogenic avian flu before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, where to find PEMGARDA, an update of Paxlovid administration provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center's long COVID treatment center, and where to go for answers to your long COVID questions.

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Links for this episode

• In memory of Dickson (NY Times)
• All Ebola patients discharged in Uganda (DG Alerts)
• Uganda discharges Ebola patients (WHO Uganda)
• Emergency measures to stop polio…..isn't this the same plan as last year? (GPEI))
• A third nOPV2 campaign…..but I thought OPV stops transmission (Reuters)
• Worst outbreak of measles in 30 years for Texas….go big or go home! (AP News)
• Measles 58 in Texas…. (Texas Health and Human Services)
• High pathogenic avain influenza virus infection of indoor domestic cats (CDC MMWR)
• Avian influenza in dairy cattle in Arizona (AZEIN)
• Third avian flu spillover! (CIDRAP)
• No vaccine hesitancy in chickens…..vaccinate all! (Science)
• Zoetis to supply conditionally licensed avian influenza H5N1 vaccine for chickens (Zoetis)
• High path avian influenza in mammals (USDA: Animal and plant health inspection service)
• How to vaccinate your chicken (WikiHow)
• Vaccine failure due to poor administration.(the poultry site)
• Human cases of H5N1 in US rise to 4 (CBS News)
• Canada's buying vaccine as US rats become infected (CIDRP)
• Canada purchases avian influenza vaccine for those at high risk (Canada Public Health)
• Influenza: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• How the communications pause endangered us about influenza (AP News)
• Most intense flu season in 15 years (AP News)
• US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView)
• RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• Weekly US influenza surveillance report (CDC FluView)
• RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection)
• US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• COVID-19 case fatality rate and infection fatality rate from 2020 to 2023 (Journal of Infection and public health)
• Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• COVID-19 deaths (CDC)
• COVID-19 national and regional trends (CDC)
• COVID-19 variant tracker (CDC)
• SARS-CoV-2 genomes galore (Nextstrain)
• Where to get pemgarda (Pemgarda)
• EUA for the pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 (INVIYD)
• Fusion center near you….if in NY (Prime Fusions)
• CDC Quarantine guidelines (CDC)
• NIH COVID-19 treatment guidelines (NIH)
• Drug interaction checker (University of Liverpool)
• Paxlovid update (Pfizer)
• Infectious Disease Society guidelines for treatment and management (ID Society)
• A randomized, double-blind, Phase 1, single- and multiple-dose placebo-controlled study of the safety and pharmacokinetics of IN-006, an inhaled antibody treatment for COVID-19 in healthy volunteers (eBioMedicine)
• Ensitrelvir for the Treatment of Nonhospitalized Adults with COVID-19 (CID)
• Molnupiravir safety and efficacy (JMV)
• Convalescent plasma recommendation for immunocompromised (ID Society)
• What to do when sick with a respiratory virus (CDC)
• When your healthcare provider is infected/exposed with SARS-CoV-2 (CDC)
• Managing healthcare staffing shortages (CDC)
• Steroids, dexamethasone at the right time (OFID)
• Anticoagulation guidelines (hematology.org)
• Daniel Griffin's evidence based medical practices for long COVID (OFID)
• Long COVID hotline (Columbia : Columbia University Irving Medical Center)
• The answers: Long COVID
• Letters read on TWiV 1194
• Dr. Griffin's COVID treatment summary (pdf)
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

Send your questions for Dr. Griffin to daniel@microbe.tv

Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.