TWiV 1224: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello in dismay examine the MAHA-Make America Health Again-report and its inclusion of fictious studies or "Creative literature degree Medical Science writing", RFK Jr contradicted by the CDC for COVID-19 vaccine recommendations for children, reduction in MMR vaccine coverage, the ongoing bird flu and measles outbreaks, how the General Accounting Office instructed HHS to fix deficiencies in infectious disease testing before the next pandemic, before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections the Wasterwater Scan dashboard, whether or not the NB.1.8.1 should be included in the fall 2025 vaccines approval of Moderna's mNEXSPIKE vaccine for fall 2025, childhood immunization recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines, where to find PEMGARDA, results from the phase 3 randomized clinical trial of pemivibart, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center's long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, the identification of an association between FOXP4 and long COVID and contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research.

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Links for this episode

• The MAHA report (The White House)
• White House Health Report Included Fake Citations (NY Times)
• C.D.C. Contradicts Kennedy and Keeps Advice That Children May Get Covid Shots (NY TImes)
• CDC revises recommendation for COVID vaccines in kids (CIDRAP)
• Exclusive: CDC Expert resigns from COVID vaccines advisory role (Reuters)
• Trends in County-Level MMR Vaccination Coverage in Children in the United States (JAMA Network)
• U.S. Cancels Contract With Moderna to Develop Bird Flu Vaccine (NY Times)
• Canada Wants to Kill 400 Ostriches. Kennedy and Dr. Oz Want to Save Them. (NY Times)
• Confirmations of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Commercial and Backyard Flocks (USDA: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service)
• H5 bird flu: current situation (CDC: Avian Influenza)
• Bird flu (CDC: Avian Influenza)
• H5N1 avian flu strikes another Arizona layer farm (CIDRAP)
• Bird flu outbreak kills 95% of Hickman's Arizona chickens, closes West Valley farms (AZCentral)
• Wastewater for measles (WasterWater Scan)
• Additional Denver Resident Tests Positive forMeasles (Denver: The Mile High City)
• Health officials alert public of potential measles exposure at Denver International Airport and nearby hotel (Colorado: Department of public health and environment)
• Colorado announces another measles case linked to Turkish Airlines flight (CIDRAP)
• Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Rubeola)
• Weekly measles and rubella monitoring (Government of Canada)
• Measles (WHO)
• Measles vaccine recommendations from NYP (jpg)
• Get the FACTS about measles (NY State Department of Health)
• Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola))
• Measles vaccine (CDC Measles (Rubeola))
• Presumptive evidence of measles immunity (CDC)
• Contraindications and precautions to measles vaccination (CDC)
• Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola))
• Adverse events associated with childhood vaccines: evidence bearing on causality (NLM)
• Measles Vaccination: Know the Facts (ISDA: Infectious Diseases Society of America)
• Deaths following vaccination: what does the evidence show (Vaccine)
• Public Health Preparedness: HHS Needs a Coordinated National Approach for Diagnostic Testing for Pandemic Threats (GAO: US Government Accountability Office)
• GAO to HHS: Fix 'persistent deficiencies' in infectious-disease testing before next pandemic (CIDRAP)
• Influenza: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView)
• Respiratory virus activity levels (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView)
• FDA-CDC-DOD: 2025-2046 influenza vaccine composition (FDA)
• RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection)
• 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)
• Antigenic and Virological Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 Variant BA.3.2, XFG, and NB.1.8.1 (biRxiV)
• mNEXSPIKE is now approved and coming this fall (mNEXSPIKE)
• FDA approval for mNEXSPIKE (moderna)
• COVID-19 vaccine for 6 months, 12 years (CDC: childhood vaccination)
• COVID-19 vaccine for65 years and older (CDC: Adult vaccination)
• ACIP Shared Clinical Decision-Making Recommendations (CDC: Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices(ACIP))
• Safety and Efficacy of Pemivibart, a Long-Acting Monoclonal Antibody, for Prevention of Symptomatic COVID-19 (CID)
• Where to get pemgarda (Pemgarda)
• EUA for the pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 (INVIYD)
• Infusion center (Prime Fusions)
• CDC Quarantine guidelines (CDC)
• NIH COVID-19 treatment guidelines (NIH)
• Drug interaction checker (University of Liverpool)
• Infectious Disease Society guidelines for treatment and management (ID Society)
• Molnupiravir safety and efficacy (JMV)
• Convalescent plasma recommendation for immunocompromised (ID Society)
• What to do when sick with a respiratory virus (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
• Genome-wide association study of long COVID (Nature Genetics)
• Reaching out to US house representative
• Letters read on TWiV 1224
• Dr. Griffin's COVID treatment summary (pdf)
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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