TWiV 1270: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 15 November 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello record from the ASTMH meeting in Toronto and discuss continuing avian flu outbreaks, the continued global measles outbreak, the effectiveness of high and low doses of the influenza vaccine before Dr. Griffin deep dives into recent statistics on the measles epidemic, RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the Wasterwater Scan dashboard, Johns Hopkins measles tracker, children hospitalizations following COVID-19 and influenza vaccination, where to find PEMGARDA, how to access and pay for Paxlovid, long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, 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 Five new avian flu outbreaks confirmed in ducks, turkeys in 3 US states (CIDRAP) Confirmation of highly pathogenic Avian Influenza in Commercial and Backyard flocks (USDA: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service) Wastewater for measles (WasterWater Scan) Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Rubeola) Tracking Measles Cases in the U.S. (Johns Hopkins) Measles vaccine recommendations from NYP (jpg) Weekly measles and rubella monitoring (Government of Canada) 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) ACIP Recommendations Summary (CDC: Influenza) Effectiveness of high-dose influenza vaccine against hospitalisations in older adults (FLUNITY-HD) (LANCET) Relative effectiveness of the high-dose versus standard-dose influenza vaccines for the prevention of laboratory-confirmed influenza among Italian older adults during three recent seasons (International Journal of Infectious Diseases) Influenza Vaccine Composition for the 2025-2026 U.S. Influenza Season (FDA) RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) Respiratory Diseases (Yale School of Public Health) US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses) RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection) Long-term impact of nirsevimab on prevention of respiratory syncytial virus infection using a real-word global database (Journal of Infection) Vaccines for Adults (CDC: Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection (RSV)) Economic Analysis of Protein Subunit and mRNA RSV Vaccination in Adults aged 50-59 Years (CDC: ACIP) 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) COVID-19 and influenza deaths in Australian children 2018-2023: a national case analysis (Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society) 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) Help your eligible patients access PAXLOVID with the PAXCESS Patient Support Program (Pfizer Pro) Understanding Coverage Options (PAXCESS) 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) 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 Reaching out to US house representative Letters read on TWiV 1270 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.
0:11.0	From MicrowTV, this is Twiv. This week in Virology, episode 1270 recorded on November 11th, 2025.
0:23.1	I'm Vincent Rackenielo, and you're listening to the podcast, All About Viruses.
0:28.6	Joining me today here in Toronto, Canada, Daniel Griffin.
0:35.1	You might have to turn it on.
0:36.7	Hello, everyone.
0:39.1	Daniel, what are we doing in Toronto?
0:41.4	You know, I don't know, actually.
0:42.8	No, I do.
0:43.2	I do, actually.
0:45.0	So I drove up through a snowstorm to go to a...
0:50.3	Tropical medicine meeting.
0:52.0	That just doesn't make sense.
0:53.2	Does it tropical medicine in, what is it, like, negative 3, 26 degrees Fahrenheit?
0:59.0	Yeah.
1:00.0	It's snowing, it's slippery out there.
1:02.0	I'm never going to get back across the border trying to explain that I went to Toronto for tropical medicine.
1:07.0	But yeah, we're at the ASTM and H annual meeting. Right, and we just did a twip. We just did a twip.
1:14.2	Now we're going to do, now we are doing a twib. We're in the middle of this. And you have a bowtie on
1:19.9	and I can see it. Okay. And so I don't even have to guess. It's a parasite without borders
1:26.2	bowtie. Exactly. So it's the world with an ascarus wrapped around it.
1:31.1	With a nice sharp point, right?
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