TWiV 1086: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 10 February 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses the how the pandemic influenced the healthcare job market and why people conceal their infectious diseases before he reviews most recent statistics on the circulation of respiratory syncytial virus, influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2 virus, including all circulating variants in the US, discusses if susceptibility and disease severity are inheritable traits, if vaccination during pregnancy protects neonates or leads to adverse effects, the effectiveness of a monovalent XBB.1.5 against disease resulting from infection with Omicron variants, whether vaccination in the same or opposite arms effect antibody protection, continues to dispel the myth of viral rebound, how to pay for paxlovid, when to use steroids and the benefits of convalescent plasma, how SARS-CoV-2 infection may alter one’s sleep patterns, what the health and economic burdens of mild disease are, and if there are predictors for recovery from fatigue and cognitive deficits following SARS-CoV-2 infection. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Do you want a job in healthcare? (JAMA) Why people don’t tell the truth about infectious diseases (Psychological Science) 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) Variant tracker (CDC) Variant hospital admissions (CDC) Is susceptibility and severity of COVID-19 inheritabile (Nat Comm) Neonates of vaccinated mothers (JAMA) How is the monovalent XBB.1.5 vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic infection Sept 2023-Jan 2024 (MMWR) Second dose in the opposite arm improves antibody response (JCI) Virus specific immune repsonses following contralateral or ipsilateral immunication (eBioMedicine) CDC Quarantine guidelines (CDC) To rebound or to not rebound (MMWR) Know your COVID-19 tools (ESMED) How to pay for Paxlovid (PAXCESS) Molnupiravir safety and efficacy (JMV) Convalescent plasma recommendation for immunocompromised (IDSociety) Steroids,dexamethasone at the right time (OFID) Anticoagulation guidelines (hematology.org) How COVID-19 affected your sleep (Frontiers in Public Health) Health and economic burden of COVID-19 after illness (BMC Medicine) Predicting recovery from fatigue and cognitive deficits after COVID-19 (eClinical Medicine) Contribute to our ASTMH fundraiser at PWB Letters read on TWiV 1086 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.
0:15.8	Episode 1086 recorded on February 8th,
0:20.1	2024. I'm Vincent Drackin Yellow and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses.
0:27.0	Joining me today from New York, Daniel Griffin.
0:31.3	Hello everyone. The bow tie, I can't see it, what is it Daniel?
0:36.8	So it's blue and it's got these tiny little red bicilla, red snappers as we affectionately refer to them so it's
0:46.2	tuberculosis. Wow. Yeah with the red acid fast stain but in general I guess it's any micobacterium. I saw a gentleman this week with
0:56.1	mycobacterium chalonai. So yeah, enjoy those micobobacterium but all right let's get right into it I will
1:07.6	start with our quotation this week don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity.
1:16.8	It's your place in the world.
1:18.4	It's your life.
1:19.4	Go on and do all you can do with it and make the life you want to live.
1:24.0	And very optimistic quotations from May Jebeson,
1:28.5	the first African American woman to travel in space.
1:31.6	I thought that was appropriate for I think all of our shared
1:35.2	love and fascination with space as well as it is it's a special month this this
1:41.0	month, right? Black History Month. So the month this month right black history month so the first thing I wanted to start with was a few
1:47.2	comments you know in sort of in response to some of the responses we had about our
1:52.3	discussion of the article,
1:54.3	job flows into and out of health care before and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
1:59.5	We discussed how many people had left health care.
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