TWiV 1068: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 9 December 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses developmental impairment in children exposed during pregnancy to maternal SARS-COV2, vagus nerve dysfunction in the post-COVID-19 condition, and humoral immunity to an endemic coronavirus is associated with postacute sequelae of COVID-19 in individuals with rheumatic diseases, incidence and burden of long COVID in Africa. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Developmental impairment in children exposed during pregnancy to maternal SARS-COV2 (IJID) Vagus nerve dysfunction in the post-COVID-19 condition (CMI) Humoral immunity to an endemic coronavirus is associated with postacute sequelae of COVID-19 in those with rheumatic diseases (STM) Incidence and burden of long COVID in Africa (Nature) Contribute to our MicrobeTV fundraiser at PWB 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.
0:07.0	Hello everyone, this is Dr. Griffin coming to you from
0:14.9	Uganda actually eastern Uganda and pretty close to the Kenyan border up here to
0:20.5	Mount Elgon I've been working at the Pemrick Clinic for the last week. So this is sort of a special
0:29.7	episode as I'm recording this solo and then Vincent well piece it together as best he can
0:35.0	but let us get going start with our quotation. Education is the ability to
0:41.5	listen to almost anything without losing your temper or
0:45.0	your self-confidence.
0:46.5	That's by Robert Frost.
0:49.6	And we will start off with Malaria, seemed very appropriate as I'm recording this in
0:53.9	Subsau in Africa. According to a recent W. H.O. Report, World Health
0:59.6	Organization Report, we are losing ground and adding about 5 million cases per year.
1:06.0	Progress has stalled since 2015 with the rising drug and insecticide resistance.
1:12.0	Progress towards the 2025. the drug and insecticide resistance.
1:13.0	Progress towards the 2025 milestone is 55% off track.
1:18.0	The Global Health Body said and will be missed by 89% this year if the trajectory persists and I'll just
1:26.6	read a quotation this year's report includes for the first time a dedicated
1:31.8	chapter focused on the intersection between climate change
1:35.1	and malaria as described in the report climate change is one of the many
1:39.3	threats to the global response to malaria and I will leave a number of links in our show
1:44.8	nubs. RSV still with the shortage of bait for us and unfortunately as many of
1:52.4	us have moved from shared decision-making to really trying to get the highest
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