TWiV 914: COVID-19 clinical update #121 with Dr. Daniel Griffin

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 2 July 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In COVID-19 clinical update #121, Dr. Griffin discusses age as a risk factor for severe disease, updated vaccine boosters for the fall, pediatric infection and antibody seroprevalence in Arkansas over the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, all-cause maternal mortality in the United States before and during the pandemic, and the effect of 2-week interruption in methotrexate treatment and how it impacts vaccine immunity. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Age as a risk factor for severe disease (NY Times) Omicron boosters for the fall (NPR) Pediatric infection and antibody seroprevalence in Arkansas (PIDS) All-cause US maternal mortality during pandemic (JAMA) Effect of 2-week interruption in methotrexate treatment (The Lancet) PAXLOVID patient eligibility screening checklist (FDA) Remdesivir fact sheet for providers (Veklury) Bebtelovimab fact sheet for providers (FDA) PAXLOVID drug interaction checker (IDSA) Contribute to FIMRC fundraiser at PWB 35:42 Dr. Griffin’s treatment guide (pdf) Letters read on TWiV 914 Timestamps by Jolene. 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.
0:10.4	From micro TV, this is Twiv this week in virology, episode 914 recorded on June 30th, 2022.
0:21.6	I'm Vincent Draghaniello and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses.
0:25.9	Joining me today from New York, Daniel Griffin.
0:29.6	Hello, everyone.
0:31.1	Well, that's it for June, Daniel.
0:33.4	That's true.
0:35.6	Right, this drops July 2nd, right?
0:38.8	Is that?
0:39.2	Wow.
0:39.7	July for...
0:40.8	Second, you're right.
0:41.8	That's Saturday.
0:42.6	It has September, April, June and November.
0:44.9	Then I always say once June is over, it's really it for the summer before you know it's
0:49.6	September. So just very briefly, what do you see in the summer as far as COVID goes?
0:56.1	Do you think the numbers are going to stay low or what?
0:59.1	You know, it's really hard, as I think we've said to know exactly what the numbers are.
1:03.9	I mean, this is SARS-CoV-2 everywhere and we've got all these people getting together.
1:07.8	And so, you know, there's lots of virus.
1:11.2	I don't think we're going to have as low a number of infections this summer.
1:17.6	But I still am optimistic that we're continuing to see low levels of hospitalizations and deaths
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