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This Week in Virology

TWiV 1020: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses guidance on measles during the summer travel season, the Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines on the diagnosis of COVID-19: antigen testing, SARS-CoV-2 variants and age-dependent infection rates among household and nonhousehold contacts, effect of COVID-19 vaccination on household transmission of SARS-COV-2 in the Omicron era, incidence of myopericarditis after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination, intrinsic and effective severity of COVID-19 cases infected with the ancestral strain and Omicron BA.2 variant in Hong Kong, safety, immunogenicity and protection of heterologous boost with an aerosolized Ad5-nCoV after two-dose inactivated COVID-19 vaccines in adults, awake prone positioning for non-intubated patients with COVID-19-related acute hypoxic respiratory failure, melatonin effects on sleep quality of COVID-19 patients, female reproductive health impacts of Long COVID and associated illnesses including ME/CFS, POTS, and connective tissue disorders, and incident autoimmune diseases in association with SARS-CoV-2 infection. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Guidance on measles during the summer travel season (CDC) Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines on the diagnosis of COVID-19 (CID) SARS-CoV-2 variants and infection rates among household and nonhousehold contacts (CDC) Effect of COVID-19 vaccination on household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the Omicron era (IJID) Incidence of myopericarditis after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination (Science Direct) Intrinsic and effective severity of COVID-19 cases infected with the ancestral strain and Omicron BA.2 variant (JID) Safety, immunogenicity and protection of heterologous boost with Ad5-nCoV after two-dose inactivated COVID-19 vaccines (The Lancet) Awake prone positioning for non-intubated patients with COVID-19-related acute hypoxic respiratory failure (BMC) Melatonin effects on sleep quality of COVID-19 patients (BMJ) Female reproductive health impacts of Long COVID and associated illnesses (FRS) Incident autoimmune diseases in association with SARS-CoV-2 infection (CR) Contribute to our FIMRC fundraiser at PWB Letters read on TWiV 1020 Dr. Griffin’s COVID treatment summary (pdf) Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your questions for Dr. Griffin to [email protected]

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0:00.0

This week in virology, the podcast about viruses, the kind that make you sick.

0:10.5

From Mike Grove TV, this is TWIV, this week in virology episode 2020, recorded on June 29,

0:21.6

2023. I'm Vincent Draken yellow and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses. Joining me

0:29.6

today from New York, Daniel Griffin. Hello everyone. Daniel, I'm in Atlanta, Georgia, just finished

0:38.0

up ASV, American Society for virology, where we did a podcast with Trevor Bedford. Okay.

0:47.9

Some of our listeners may know developed nextstrain.org, the virus tracking website.

0:56.1

And I just wanted to say one thing that he related to us. The US is on track to accumulate 80,000

1:05.8

COVID deaths in 2023. And as I told him, Daniel says they're mostly preventable.

1:14.8

Yeah. Any any comment from Trevor on that one? He agreed completely. Okay. Yeah, I know Trevor,

1:22.4

he's he's done some good stuff. So do I get to listen to some kind of recording? Is there a

1:27.6

podcast where I get to listen to Trevor or? Yes, it will be this this week's episode,

1:34.4

one thousand twenty one. The one right after this one, which drops on Sunday, which I think is

1:41.5

July 1st, right at midnight. Okay. Well, I know I know what I'm doing on Sunday. So let's get right

1:49.7

into it. I've got my I've got my this is my HIV Bowtie today. And I'm actually going to start with

1:56.5

a quotation from someone who is on the show a while back. You can't take a knife on a plane anymore,

2:02.8

but you can get on carrying a virus. And that's David Kwaman. Daniel, where do you carry these viruses

2:11.6

you can carry them anywhere you want. They can be in your GI track. You can carry them in your

2:15.5

lungs. They can be you can be on your hands. Oh, do you think we ought to be testing for these

2:22.4

Daniel before you can get on a plane? I'm not sure it makes sense at this point. You know,

2:27.8

me you wonder at some point with a technology if you could you know, if you could know that,

2:32.4

you know, you were safe getting onto that plane or safe in these other environments like those

2:36.4

dogs we talk about maybe we've got all these dogs around, but not sure that's uh, but yeah,

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