TWiV 1042: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 9 September 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses China’s health authorities fighting surge in cases of Mpox unknown origin, analysis of seasonal variation of antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract diagnoses in primary care practices, prevalence and associated outcomes of co-infection between SARS-CoV-2 and influenza, comparison of bivalent and monovalent mRNA vaccine boosters, optimal duration of systemic corticosteroids in COVID-19 treatment, acute blood biomarker profiles predict cognitive deficits 6 and 12 months after COVID-19 hospitalization, temporal changes in fecal microbiota of patients infected with COVID-19, and long-term survival after intensive care for COVID-19. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode China’s health authorities fight surge in cases of unknown origin (BMJ) Analysis of seasonal variation of antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract diagnoses (ASHE) Prevalence and outcomes of co-infection between SARS-CoV-2 and influenza (IJID) Comparison of bivalent and monovalent mRNA vaccine boosters (CID) Optimal duration of systemic corticosteroids in COVID-19 treatment (OFID) Acute blood biomarker profiles predict cognitive deficits after COVID-19 hospitalization (Nature) Temporal changes in fecal microbiota of patients infected with COVID-19 (BMC) Long-term survival after intensive care for COVID-19 (AIC) Contribute to our Floating Doctors fundraiser at PWB Letters read on TWiV 1042 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 micro TV, this is twiv this week in virology episode 1042 recorded on September 6th,
0:21.2	2020, 23. I'm Vincent Racken yellow and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses
0:28.1	joining me today from New York. Daniel Griffin. Hello, everyone. What's new in infectious diseases,
0:35.8	Daniel? Well, stay tuned and we're going to go through it. So let's start with the quotation.
0:42.6	Yeah, sad week. I don't know how many of our listeners are aware that Jimmy Buffett has left us,
0:48.4	has died in the last week. So I have a quotation from Jimmy Buffett, a huge, I am a huge fan of Jimmy
0:55.1	Buffett. I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening.
1:01.8	In my family and friends, I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold.
1:07.6	So that was really a nice, nice quotation and that goes out to not only family friends,
1:14.4	but all our twiv friends who have joined us in the last few years. So thank you for being here.
1:20.4	Well, let's start off with Mpox, a situation that Vincent and I were discussing last week.
1:26.2	There was a news piece, Mpox, China's health authorities fight surge in cases of unknown
1:32.8	origin published in the BMJ. So what is happening with Mpox, right? So we talked a bit about all these
1:39.7	dire predictions about what might happen in the US. And a lot of times when a public health
1:45.1	response is effective, we don't notice you don't get any credit. You only get attention when you
1:50.0	fail. Well, confirmed cases of viral infection, which primarily spreads through contact with infectious
1:55.8	legions increased for Mpox nearly five full to 491 on the Chinese mainland in July according to
2:04.6	the China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention. So even though we call it the China CDC,
2:10.2	they've got a pee in there. That was up from 106 cases in June. No deaths were recorded so far.
2:18.8	Four in five of the cases had no known origin according to a post on the China CDC's website.
2:26.5	A little quotation here, the reported cases represent only a fraction of the actual numbers,
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