TWiV 886: COVID-19 clinical update #109 with Dr. Daniel Griffin

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 9 April 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In COVID-19 clinical update #109, Daniel Griffin discusses cardiac complications after infection or vaccination, long COVID in children, fourth vaccine dose in Israel, no need for fourth vaccine dose in EU, dexamethasone dosing, immunomodulation therapy, MIS outcomes in children, US long COVID effort launched, and herd immunity. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Cardiac complications after infection or vaccination (MMWR) Long COVID in children (Future Med) Fourth vaccine dose in Israel (NEJM) No need for fourth vaccine dose (Eur Med Agency) Dexamethasone dosing (Intensive Care Med) Actemra priority review (Roche) Guidelines on anticoagulation therapy (American Soc Hematol) MIS outcomes in children in children (JAMA) Biden launches long COVID effort (USA Today) Herd immunity and COVID (J Inf Dis) Contribute to ASTMH fundraiser at PWB Dr. Griffin’s treatment guide (pdf) Letters read on TWiV 886 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your questions for Dr. Griffin to daniel@microbe.tv

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0:00.0	This week in virology, the podcast about viruses, the kind that make you sick.
0:10.4	From micro TV, this is twiv this week in virology, episode 887 recorded on April 7th, 2022.
0:21.2	I'm Vincent Racken Yellow and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses joining me today from New York.
0:28.7	Daniel Griffin. Hello everyone. Daniel, you got to come into the incubator some time.
0:34.4	You know, my wife was asking me that today. She's like, are you going into the city today?
0:39.1	I just got this alert that traffic is really bad where you would take the train. Wouldn't you?
0:43.9	I would definitely take the train, particularly. Well, I would just take the train.
0:48.5	Getting in and out of the city in a car is just not not the thing to do. All right, this is update 109, 109. Wow.
0:56.6	Okay, so we got a lot to cover today. I've got the microphone right here, like as Dixon wants for
1:03.7	better hearing and better audio quality. It does get in the way of my bow ties.
1:08.2	Oh, you have to make trade off, Stan. You'll be right. We do. We do. All right, let us go right to
1:12.6	the quotations and I have this a double quotation day. A faith that cannot survive collision with
1:20.4	the truth is not worth many regrets. And that's Arthur C. Clark. And in the same vein, religion is a
1:28.4	culture of faith. Science is a culture of doubt. And I think this is really important. I still
1:34.3	remember we talked a little bit about how physicians approach their practice style. And I hope people
1:41.4	have learned from all of the twix, all of the micro TV podcasts that, you know, it's like we all
1:50.0	came from Missouri, right? Show me. Show me the science, right? We don't just want you to say,
1:56.8	this is what I'm thinking of doing. We really want to know what's going on. There isn't supposed
2:02.4	to be authority in science. The authority in science is truth is experimental data. So
2:09.1	with that being said right into our update, we have a few things right up front. So B.A.2,
2:14.9	the Omicron Stealth variant is now the dominant variant, actually all around the world, but also
2:21.6	all across the US. And in response to this this week, the US FDA announced that the antibody drug.
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