TWiV 1120: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin reports the third case of influenza H5N1 infection in a human, this time with respiratory symptoms, an H5 avian influenza virus wastewater dashboard, FDA approves Moderna’s mRNA vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus, vaccine advisors to FDA recommend switching from the XBB.1.5 variant to JN.1 for fall COVID-19 vaccine formulations, weekly US COVID update, a controlled human exhaled breath aerosol experimental study on the relative efficacy of masks and respirators as source control for viral aerosol shedding from people infected with SARS-CoV-2, systematic review of early use of oral antiviral drugs and the risk of post COVID-19 syndrome, long-COVID autonomic syndrome in working age and work ability impairment, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 5.3% of Americans currently have long COVID, and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine presented a report with a number of conclusions about long-COVID diagnosis, symptoms, and impact on daily function. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Links coming soon Long COVID evidence based review TWiV shout out Contribute to our Floating Doctors fundraiser Letters read on TWiV 1120 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 Vyrology, the podcast about viruses, the kind that make you sick.
0:07.0	From Micrope TV, this is Twive, this week in Vyrology, episode 1120, recorded on June 6, 2024.
0:22.0	I'm Vincent Rachinello and 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.
0:33.4	I am in Helsinki, Finland today where it's pretty chilly here.
0:39.2	I don't know what the temperature is, but below 68, maybe low 60s but wow okay yeah all right I guess the the
0:48.6	mid to low teens for Celsius that's right. Now Daniel, yes, your your pop screen is blocking your bow tie.
0:57.6	My bow tie. Uh-huh. So it's a fellow virus one of my favorites Ebola.
1:07.0	Now people are going to complain that you call Ebola virus your favorite, you know.
1:12.0	Well, all the other, you know, Well all the other you know pathogens get jealous is that what you're
1:16.7	worried about? No I think you know since it kills people readily that yeah we, we should, yeah, no, and I understand that because people, it seems a little bit morbid, right, that we would, you know, in a sense that you're kind of glad that there's people out there that would rather spend time playing with, you know, viral pathogens and
1:35.4	understanding them than, you know, video games. So whatever it takes to motor people that do the work to learn more to help us take care of folks.
1:45.3	So, all right, well I'm going to jump right into it with a Paul Farmer quotation.
1:51.6	If I am hungry, that is a material problem. If someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.
1:59.0	And you know, I was hanging out in the doctor's lounge over at one of our local hospitals. It's not exactly the nicest
2:05.3	doctor's lounge. We kind of, you know, always complain. But one of the surgeons came in, he's
2:10.9	like, oh Dan, you've got to watch this movie. It's called
2:13.1	bending the arc. And he starts talking about it. I'm like, are you talking about
2:16.4	Paul Farmer? Yeah. So he had just discovered Paul Farmer, who unfortunately
2:22.3	left us. He died much too young.
2:26.2	Actually a few of us, I don't know if you were there that year at ASTM&H Vincent, but there was a memorial to Paul the year he died.
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