TWiV 1210: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello rue about the continuation of the gutting of the American public health infrastructure, the continuing measles outbreak, an unreported outbreak of deadly E.coli human infections, meningococcal disease before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, ACIP recommended changes in guidelines for the RSV and COVID-19 vaccines, reactogenicity differences between Novavax and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines, where to find PEMGARDA, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center’s long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, long COVID interventions, effects of long COVID in children and adolescents and a list of ongoing clinical trials for long COVID treatment.

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Links for this episode

• Making America Healthy Again-purging of administrators at HHS (Politico)
• Making America Healthy Again-purging of data (Politico)
• Deep cuts of the federal government (NY Times)
• Cutting NIH, CDC and HHS promotes chronic disease research(Washington Post)
• Political ideology and trust in scientists in the USA(Nature Human Behavior)
• US political conservatives have deep, unbudging suspicion of science, survey suggests(CIDRAP)
• A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it(NBC News)
• Invasive meningococcal disease – Kingdom of Saudi Arabia(WHO)
• The essential guide to understanding the differences between hajj and umrah (Marhabahaji)
• Measles Vaccination: Know the Facts(ISDA: Infectious Diseases Society of America)
• Measles booster? (Washington Post)
• How to stop an outbreak…….fire the experts (Washington Post)
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