TWiV 1070: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 16 December 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses monkeypox and chickenpox co-infection in southern Nigeria, vaccine effectiveness against influenza A, SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody titers in maternal blood, umbilical cord blood, and breast milk, COVID-19 rapid antigen tests with self-collected vs health care worker–collected nasal and throat swab specimens, four methods for monitoring SARS-CoV-2 and Influenza A virus activity in schools, efficacy and safety of Baricitinib for the treatment of hospitalized adults with COVID-19, a synbiotic preparation (SIM01) for post-acute COVID-19 syndrome in Hong Kong, consistent absence of cerebrospinal fluid biomarker abnormalities in patients with neurocognitive post-COVID complications, and risk of new-onset long COVID following reinfection with SARS-CoV-2. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Monkeypox and chickenpox co-infection in southern Nigeria (JID) Vaccine effectiveness against influenza A (CID) SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody titers in maternal blood, umbilical cord blood, and breast milk (JOP) COVID-19 rapid antigen tests with self-collected vs health care worker–collected nasal and throat swab specimens (JAMA) Four methods for monitoring SARS-CoV-2 and influenza A virus activity in schools (JAMA) Efficacy and safety of Baricitinib for the treatment of hospitalized adults with COVID-19 (EJMR) A synbiotic preparation (SIM01) for post-acute COVID-19 syndrome in Hong Kong (The Lancet) Consistent absence of cerebrospinal fluid biomarker abnormalities in patients with neurocognitive post-COVID complications (JID) Risk of new-onset long COVID following reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 (OFID) 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	From Microbe TV, this is Twive this week in virology episode 1070 recorded on
0:18.7	December 15, 2023 I'm Vincent Rachin-yellow and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses.
0:27.0	Joining me today from Panama, Daniel Griffin.
0:32.0	Hello everyone.
0:34.2	Don't have a bow tie on.
0:35.3	I can't ask you what your bow tie looks like.
0:37.4	I know, I know.
0:38.6	People commented about that.
0:40.5	What's different about Dr. Griffin
0:42.4	when they looked at my video from last week? about that
0:43.7	Dr. Griffin when they looked at my video from last week.
0:45.1	But let's get right into it because I am recording
0:47.3	from a remote part of Panama.
0:49.8	And my quotation, the saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers
0:55.0	knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom and that's Isaac Asimov.
1:00.2	That's so true right?'s so true, right? Unfortunately, so true. Yes. So I just thought I would give people a little bit of an update now that I've got slightly better bandwidth. Where have I been for the last couple of weeks and so though a week ago
1:16.4	ago as opposed to this most recent week I was up in the mountains of Eastern
1:21.5	Uganda at the Foundation International Medical Relief of Children Clinic on the Uganda-Kanya border.
1:29.0	Working with a great team there. Just so nice to see how well the clinic is doing.
1:35.4	It's a real solid clinic connected with the government
1:40.0	and just great work being done there.
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