TWiV 1212: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent
Racaniello deplore the US’s withdrawal from the global health
community for pandemic preparedness i.e. the universal avian flu
vaccine, and undermining the use of routine childhood
vaccinations for pertussis and measles, RFK’s autism registry,
yellow fever outbreak in Colombia and world immunization week
after discussing the squirrel as the reservoir host for mpox,
before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza
and SARS-CoV-2 infections the WasterwaterScan dashboard, how
immunity elicited by the RSV vaccine wanes in 3 years, if
Paxlovid reduces stroke, 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, if vaccination impacts long COVID and if long
COVID were to become epidemic.


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Links for this episode

The American Public’s
Disengagement With Highly Pathogenic Avian
Influenza (HPAI): Considerations for Vaccination and Dietary
Changes(American Public Health Association)

New agreement geared toward universal avian flu
vaccine (CIDRAP)

Cambridge’s DIOSynVax and Singapore’s ACM Biolabs to
advance pandemic-ready universal bird flu
vaccine with international support (GlobeNewswire)

Bird flu continues to spread among live poultry
markets after shut down
order  (CRAIN’S New York Business)

Fire-footed rope squirrels (Funisciurus pyrropus) are
a reservoir host of monkeypox virus
(Orthopoxvirus monkeypox)(Research Square)

It is a squirrel! An animal source of
mpox emerges(Nature)

Whooping cough spikes, especially
among unvaccinated teens (NBC News)

A February flu surge has arrived
(NCB News)


Pertussis Cases by Year (1922-2022)(CDC:
Whooping cough (pertussis)))


‘Fighting to breathe’: Whooping cough surges
as vaccination rate falters (NBC News)

CDC cancels measles help for Texas
schools amid staff layoffs (HealthDay)

Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC
Rubeola)

Measles in Texas…. (Texas Health and
Human Services)

Measles vaccine recommendations from NYP
(jpg) 

2025 Measles outbreak
guidance (New Mexico Health)

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))


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)

RFK Jr.’s autism registry plan
(Axios)

RFK Jr’s autism study collecting Americans’
private medical records (Guardian)

The public’s views on measles outbreaks
and misinformation (KFF)

 Colombia National Emergency: yellow fever
cases (Gov.Co)


World Immunization Week: polio
eradiation?(GPEI)

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)


200 children die from flu (CIDRAP)

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)

Trial shows waning efficacy of RSV
vaccine across 3 seasons in older adults(CIDRAP)


Efficacy, safety, and immunogenicity of
the AS01E-adjuvanted respiratory syncytial virus prefusion F
protein vaccine (RSVPreF3 OA) (LANCET: Respiratory Medicine)

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)

Infusion center (Prime Fusions)


CDC Quarantine guidelines (CDC)


NIH COVID-19 treatment guidelines (NIH)

Drug
interaction checker (University of
Liverpool)


Long-term stroke and mortality risk
reduction associated with acute-phase paxlovid
use in mild-to-moderate COVID-19(Journal of Medical Virology)


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)

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

The effect of COVID-19
vaccination on the risk of persistent post–COVID-19
condition (JID)


ORCHESTRA Delphi consensus: diagnostic
and therapeutic management of Post-COVID-19 condition in
vulnerable populations (CMI Clinical Microbiology and
Infection)

Political ideology and trust in
scientists in the USA(Nature Human Behavior)

Leading long COVID researcher fears it could
become a national epidemic (Spectrum News NY1)


Center for post COVID care (Mt. Sinai)
Reaching out to US house representative


Letters read on TWiV 1212

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.