TWiV 1078: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 13 January 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin reviews recent measles outbreaks, prequalification of nOPV2 by the WHO and most recent statistics on the circulation of respiratory syncytial virus, influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2 virus in the US before discussing COVID-19 deaths linked to SNPs in C-reactive protein, spread of recent viral variants, how early vaccination reduced hospitalization of those infected with XBB.1.5, reviewed quarantine guidelines, how oral antivirals reduce hospitalizations, dissociation of antiviral treatment from infection rebound, and long COVID, deaths due to administration of hydroxychloroquine, muscle abnormalities and extreme fatigue in individuals with long COVID-19 and how the economics of where you live make long COVID-19 more severe. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode A national measles campaign (CDC) A nation of measles (CDC) The measles unvaccinated in NY (CNN) Philadelphia’s measles story (Phila gov) January’s measles outbreak (CNN) Prequalify of nOPV2 by WHO (GPEI) Did you prequalify for the novel poliovirus vaccine (CIDRAP) Respiratory disease surveillance (CDC) RSV surveillance (CDC) RSV national trend(CDC) Influenza/flu surveillance (CDC) Influenza/flu map (CDC) COVID-19 hospital admissions (CDC) COVID-19 national trend (CDC) COVID-19 wastewater testing (biobot) Death rate and C-reactive protein SNPs and COVID-19 (Scientific Reports) Variant tracker (CDC) Tracking variant hospitalizations (CDC) Early vaccination against XBB.1.5 hospitalization (Eurosurveillance) Vaccination dashboard (Netherlands) Quarantine/isolation guidelines (CDC) Antiviral gap among the non-hospitalized high risk adults (CID) Oral antivirals prevent hospitalization (medRxiv) Rebound with and without oral antivirals (MMWR) Randomized rebound trials (MMWR) Know your COVID-19 tools (ESMED) The PASC-paxlovid relationship (JAMA) Molnupiravir safety and efficacy (JMV) Convalescent plasma remmendation for immunocompromised (IDSociety) Fluvoxamine for COVID-19 outpatient (RMV) Death by hydroxychloroquine (Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy) Steroids, dexamethasone at the right time (OFID) Anticoagulation guidelines (hematology.org) Doxycycline for prevention of progression of COVID-19 (PLoS One) Muscle abnormalities in long COVID (Nat Comm) Discovery of persistent fatigue in long COVID-19 (Amsterdam Univ Med Crr) IMPACC study post-acute sequelae results (Nat Comm) Double course of long COVID in low income countries (Nat) Contribute to our MicrobeTV fundraiser at PWB Letters read on TWiV 1078 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 Vyrology, episode 1078 recorded on January 11,
0:20.5	2024. I'm Vincent Rachignello. You're listening to the podcast all about viruses.
0:27.0	Joining me today from New York, Daniel Griffin.
0:31.0	Hello everyone.
0:32.0	We're catching up on One Piece, Daniel.
0:35.0	Yeah, I was going to wonder if you were going to like keep updating each time.
0:38.8	I was actually watching a One Piece episode the other night as we were enjoying
0:43.6	MB-Raman with the family at this one of this local places and yeah
0:48.8	we'll you know if we keep this up maybe we will pass one piece yeah we will we will pass one piece. Yeah we will we will now I'm looking at your tie and I'm seeing
0:56.7	viruses right? Yes so this is this is the homemade right the homemade COVID bow tie with I have the matching COVID socks with COVID toes because
1:07.0	So you tie it yourself, is that what you mean by homemade?
1:09.4	No, actually, so I have the fabric made, and then my daughter, Daisy, and my friend Rupali Gupta, actually, they iron, they put in the, there's like a thickening fabric in here it's cut to my dimensions my my
1:24.8	specifications and then only then do I actually personally tie it.
1:29.2	Mm you have one here on the coat rack.
1:33.0	I leave one there with my vintage white pro-health coat.
1:38.0	Right.
1:40.0	All right, one time I'll swap that out.
1:41.0	Well, I wanted to start with a couple things. One is a
1:44.7	this is like a couple corrections and comments from our other shows. I don't know how many
1:49.1	of our listeners also listen to this week in Parasitism or the ID Puscast. But from the
1:55.9	this week in Parisitism there are not yet 1 billion people living in Nigeria.
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