TWiV 1240: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 2 August 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello chat about the recent Salmonella typhimurim outbreak, the ousting of another CBER director, confirmation of a new CDC director and results of a recent pool about vaccine safety and trust before Dr. Griffin deep dives into recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the Wasterwater Scan dashboard, a new anti-influenza antibody that can be combined with neuraminidase inhibitors, whether or not the NB.1.8.1 should be included in the fall 2025 vaccines, the effectiveness of Sinopharm’s COVID-19 vaccine, where to find PEMGARDA, safety of the JN.1 updated vaccine, long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, the prevalence of cardiac and pulmonary abnormalities found via medical imaging following COVID-19 and contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium Infections Linked to Commercially Distributed Raw Milk (CDC: MMWR) Top F.D.A. Official Resigns UnderPressure (NY Times) In a first, the Senate confirms a new CDC director (NPR) KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust: Vaccine Safety and Trust (KFF) Wastewater for measles (WasterWater Scan) Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Rubeola) Weekly measles and rubella monitoring (Government of Canada) Measles vaccine recommendations from NYP (jpg) Measles (WHO) 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)) 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) Influenza: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) Respiratory virus activity levels (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView) Effects of baloxavir marboxil plus neuraminidase inhibitor versus neuraminidase inhibitor in high-risk patients hospitalized with severe influenza: a post hoc analysis of the Flagstone trial (OFID) FDA-CDC-DOD: 2025-2046 influenza vaccine composition (FDA) RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) ENFLONSIA: novel drug approvals 2025 (FDA) RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection) Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) COVID-19 deaths (CDC) Respiratory Illnesses Data Channel (CDC: Respiratory Illnesses) COVID-19 national and regional trends (CDC) COVID-19 variant tracker (CDC) SARS-CoV-2 genomes galore (Nextstrain) Antigenic and Virological Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 Variant BA.3.2, XFG, and NB.1.8.1 (bioRxiV) Safety of JN.1-Updated mRNA COVID-19Vaccines (JAMA) Where to get pemgarda (Pemgarda) EUA for the pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 (INVIYD) Infusion center (Prime Fusions) CDC Quarantine guidelines (CDC) NIH COVID-19 treatment guidelines (NIH) Drug interaction checker (University of Liverpool) Paxlovid (Pfizer) Infectious Disease Society guidelines for treatment and management (ID Society) Molnupiravir safety and efficacy (JMV) Convalescent plasma recommendation for immunocompromised (ID Society) What to do when sick with a respiratory virus (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 Prevalence of Persistent Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Abnormalities on PET/MRI and DECT Imaging in Long COVID Patients (Journal of Nuclear Medicine) Reaching out to US house representative Letters read on TWiV 1240 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.
0:10.3	From MicrobTV, this is Twiv. This week in Virology, episode 1240 recorded on July 31st, 2025. I'm Vincent Rackeniello, and you're listening to the podcast
0:25.9	All About Viruses. Joining me today from New York, Daniel Griffin. Hello, everyone. You know,
0:33.7	I should know that bow tie by now, black and white, it's Friday. No, it's not Friday. Okay.
0:39.9	It's Thursday, and I will say you should get this one right. Yeah, I can't see it, though. It's too
0:45.6	small. Can you zoom in? Everyone in the Rotary Club would get it right. How about that?
0:50.3	Polio virus. You got it. Yeah, that's a lot. Most people wouldn't get that clue, right?
0:56.4	That's actually probably true.
0:57.8	They might not be aware of the Rotary Club's involvement in trying to move things forward with polio.
1:05.8	Okay.
1:07.0	Well, you asked right before we started how my race was, and maybe some of the listeners, you know, remember that we record a little early last week because last Thursday morning we did our around Long Island regatta where we start off sailing under the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, sail out into the Atlantic, 100 miles east, round
1:29.0	Montauk, and sail back. And it was a great. It was a great trip. My boat's damaged. So I was able to
1:38.5	convince, I think that's the right bird, to convince the mom of one of the kids that I've
1:43.8	taught to sail over the years to do the race on her boat. And I, uh, uh, convinced the mom of one of the kids that I've taught to,
1:44.5	uh,
1:44.7	sail over the years,
1:46.1	uh, to do the race on her boat. And I, I think she loved it. She was, this was her first time as a captain in, in this race. And, uh, she got the first place finish for, uh, a new time captain. So she was delighted. We got second in our division.
1:42.5	And some interesting weather out there, Vincent.
1:45.9	We... new time captain so she was delighted we got second in our division um and uh some some interesting weather
2:03.2	out there vincent we we you know you guys like to start with the weather right on twiff yeah so the
2:09.2	weather we had at one point we had something uh called a microburst which is it's kind of like a tornado
2:17.1	it's uh it's maybe some of our listeners will write in and little details.
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