TWiV 1186: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 25 January 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and co-host Vincent Racaniello lament about the public changes from withdrawing from the WHO to health and scientific communication pauses by the Trump Administration after a brief discussion of Marburg in Tanzania and mpox in England before reviewing cats and bird flu, the recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, where to find PEMGARDA, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center’s long COVID treatment center, and where to go for answers to your long COVID questions. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Tanzania confirms Marburg virus outbreak (Reuters) Clade Ib mpox in England (Reuters) Withdrawing from the World Health Organization (WhiteHouse) Fees costs behind withdrawing from WHO ….is that what we are suppose to believe? (Sky News) Sorry to see you go, US? (WHO) Where are the updates? (CDC Health Alert Network) Pause in health communications of all kind (Washington Post) NIH chaos…..streaming to a halt? (STAT News) Devastation at the NIH, hiring traveling, meetings, communications(Science) Protect your cat from bird flu (NPR) No communication and cats with bird flu….does not sound good (CIDRAP) Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView) Baloxavir marboxil for prophylatix against influenza(NEJM) Comparative effectiveness of baloxavir marboxil and oseltamir treatment for reducint household transmission of influenza (Influenza and other respiratory viruses) RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection) US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) COVID-19 deaths (CDC) COVID-19 national and regional trends (CDC) Host-microbe multiomic profiling identifies distinct COVD-19 immune dysregulation in solid organ transplant recipients (Nature Communications) COVID-19 variant tracker (CDC) SARS-CoV-2 genomes galore (Nextstrain) Where to get pemgarda (Pemgarda) EUA for the pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 (INVIYD) Fusion center near you….if in NY (Prime Fusions) CDC Quarantine guidelines (CDC) NIH COVID-19 treatment guidelines (NIH) Infectious Disease Society guidelines for treatment and management (ID Society) Drug interaction checker (University of Liverpool) Real‐world effectiveness and safety of oral azvudine versus nirmatrelvir‒ritonavir (Paxlovid) in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 (Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy) Molnupiravir safety and efficacy (JMV) Convalescent plasma recommendation for immunocompromised (ID Society) What to do when sick with a respiratory virus (CDC) When your healthcare provider is infected/exposed with SARS-CoV-2 (CDC) Managing healthcare staffing shortages (CDC) Steroids, dexamethasone at the right time (OFID) Anticoagulation guidelines (hematology.org) Daniel Griffin’s evidence based medical practices for long COVID (OFID) Long COVID hotline (Columbia : Columbia University Irving Medical Center) The answers: Long COVID Long COVID Recovery Program with Zara Dureno, BA, MOT Letters read on TWiV 1186 Dr. Griffin’s COVID treatment summary (pdf) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. 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.
0:10.2	From MicrobTV, this is Twiv. This week in Virology, episode 1186, recorded on January 23rd, 2025.
0:22.1	I'm Vinza Drakinello, and you're listening to the podcast All About Viruses.
0:27.3	Joining me today from New York, Daniel Griffin.
0:31.5	Hello, everyone.
0:32.9	I feel so casual next to you, Daniel.
0:35.2	You got a nice jacket there.
0:36.4	I'm all fancy.
0:36.9	I got my jacket on and my
0:38.9	biohazard bow tie. Those are biohazard symbols. I see. Very nice. It seems sort of appropriate for
0:46.1	where things might be headed. Yeah, we're in a biohazardist position in this country for sure.
0:52.2	Yeah, and we're going to talk a little bit about, and I'm going to
0:54.9	try. Can you imagine this? I am going to try to be apolitical because you can't. You fail,
1:00.2	Vincent. No, you're very good at being restrained. I will try. But let me start off. We've got a
1:06.6	quotation. We got a lot to talk about today. But I will start with a quotation from Thoreau. And I am
1:12.9	mixed feelings about Thoreau. Yeah, I've been to Walden Pond. I walked around it. It's really nice.
1:19.6	It's only about two miles from Concord. So it's not really in the rural wilds that I imagined when I
1:26.5	first read the book.
1:32.9	You know, it's close enough that you can walk home and have your mother make you lunch every day and do your laundry.
1:41.3	You know, anyway, but Thoreau's quotation, rather than love, then money, then fame, give me truth.
1:42.7	Oh, yes.
1:50.4	And again, maybe this is like, what a contradiction in, you know, in people in, you know, anyway.
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