TWiV 1208: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello mourn the demise of vaccination against childhood diseases when discussing the continuing measles outbreak and the rise of pertussis, the first human case of H5N1 in Mexico, and human metapneumovirus before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections and vaccination schedules, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, where to find PEMGARDA, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center’s long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, long COVID interventions, if antiviral therapy prevents long COVID and how long COVID may affect brain volume. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia (Nature) Taking a shot at dementia (microbeTV: TWiV) RFK Jr. visits Texas after second child dies of measles amid outbreak (Washington Post) Kennedy Attends Funeral of Texas Girl Who Died of Measles(NY Times) ‘Most effective way’ to prevent measles is vaccination, RFK Jr. says, in most direct remarks yet (STAT News) Fort Bliss…..Fort measles: Beaumont Army hospital confirms measles case at Fort Bliss(KTSM News) Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Rubeola) Measles 159 in Texas…. (Texas Health and Human Services) Measles vaccine recommendations from NYP (jpg) 2025 Measles outbreak guidance (New Mexico Health) Get the FACTS about measles (NY State Department of Health) Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola)) Measles vaccine (CDC Measles (Rubeola) Presumptive evidence of measles immunity (CDC) Contraindications and precautions to measles vaccination (CDC) Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola)) Doctors’ talk measles (YouTube) Measles (CDC: Measles Rubeola) Adverse events associated with childhood vaccines: evidence bearing on causality (NLM) Measles Vaccination: Know the Facts(ISDA: Infectious Diseases Society of America) Deaths following vaccination: what does the evidence show (Vaccine) Two infants die of whooping cough in Louisiana (CNN) Clinical features of pertussis (CDC: Whooping cough Pertussis) Pertussis vaccination recommendations (CDC: Whooping cough Pertussis) Diphtheria vaccination (CDC: Diphtheria) Mexico’s first human case of H5N1 (Reuters) Human metapneumovirus seasonality and co-circulation with respiratory syncytial virus — United States, 2014–2024 (CDC: MMWR) Influenza: Wastewater scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView) Respiratory virus activity levels (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) FDA-CDC-DOD: 2025-2046 influenza vaccine composition (FDA) RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection) Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) COVID-19 deaths (CDC) COVID-19 national and regional trends (CDC) COVID-19 variant tracker (CDC) SARS-CoV-2 genomes galore (Nextstrain) Human source SARS-CoV-2 aerosol transmission to remote sentinel hamsters (OFID) Interim clinical considerations for use of COVID-19 vaccines in the United States (CDC Vaccines & Immunizations) Where to get pemgarda (Pemgarda) EUA for the pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 (INVIYD) Fusion center (Prime Fusions) CDC Quarantine guidelines (CDC) NIH COVID-19 treatment guidelines (NIH) Drug interaction checker (University of Liverpool) Infectious Disease Society guidelines for treatment and management (ID Society) Cost-effectiveness analysis of nirmatrelvir/ritonavir for high-risk individuals with COVID-19….does this mean use the big button calculator? (OFID) 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 Nirmatrelvir–ritonavir versus placebo–ritonavir in individuals with long COVID in the USA (PAX LC): (LANCET: Infectious Diseases) Quantitative brain volume differences between COVID-19 patients and non-COVID-19 volunteers (NeuroImage) Donepezil for fatigue and psychological symptoms in post–covid-19 condition (JAMA Network Open) Letters read on TWiV 1208 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] Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

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0:00.0	This Week in Virology, the podcast about viruses, the kind that make you sick.
0:10.1	From MicrobTV, this is Twiv, this week in Virology, episode 1208, recorded on April 10th, 2025.
0:21.2	I'm Vincent Dracaniel and you're listening to the podcast, All About Viruses.
0:26.4	Joining me today from New York, Daniel Griffin.
0:30.7	Hello, everyone.
0:32.7	I should know that, Todd. I recognize it, actually.
0:35.9	It's a very classic one that I wear, I wore for a lot
0:39.3	of media appearances during this past, uh, oh, it's a coronavirus time. You got it. Yes.
0:45.6	Very good. Did the media like it? Uh, you know, it's nice because here's this, uh, coronavirus.
0:50.9	But I hate to tell you, it adds to the conspiracy because I owned this before
0:55.9	December 2019. So you made it in your lab. Actually, the bow tie was custom cut up in Vermont,
1:05.6	so you got to check those. But let's jump right into it. I'm going to start off with a Paul Farmer quotation.
1:13.9	You know, as I mentioned, I recently finished reading the book, Everything is Tuberculosis, which according to my wife, is still my worldview.
1:21.3	And so Paul Farmer started this organization, Partners in Health with, I think it's like the granddaughter
1:29.0	of Roald Dahl or something, as well as Dr. Kim.
1:33.3	And so here's the quotation.
1:36.4	Statistics or graphs are not optimal to understand the experience of suffering.
1:43.3	And I think of this as, you know, a lot of times as science
1:46.3	communicators, we focus on these big numbers and these graphs and the statistics, but really
1:53.8	human beings resonate to stories, stories of individual experiences. So I'm going to make sure as we go forward that,
2:02.9	you know, not only do I talk about the data, the science, but I also try to connect people
2:07.9	because when we talk about, you know, deaths, we're talking about someone's daughter,
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