TWiV 959: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 3 December 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In his weekly clinical update Dr. Griffin discusses effectiveness of influenza vaccination of pregnant women for prevention of maternal and early infant Influenza-associated hospitalizations in South Africa, a multivalent nucleoside-modified mRNA vaccine against all known influenza virus subtypes, single and 2-dose vaccinations with modified vaccinia Ankara-Bavarian Nordic induce durable B cell memory responses comparable to replicating smallpox vaccines, whether the risk of still and preterm birth is affected by the timing of symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy, medical masks versus N95 respirators for preventing COVID-19 among health care workers, alarming antibody evasion properties of rising SARS-CoV-2 BQ and XBB subvariants, real-world evidence of novel treatments for COVID-19 on mortality: a nationwide comparative cohort study of hospitalized patients in the 1st, 2nd, 3rdand 4th wave in the Netherlands, and effectiveness and safety of extended thromboprophylaxis in post-discharge patients with COVID-19. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Effectiveness of Influenza vaccination in pregnant women (OFID) Multivalent nucleoside-modified mRNA vaccine against Influenza subtypes (Science) Single and 2-dose vaccinations with modified vaccinia Ankara-Bavarian Nordic (JID) Is the risk of still and preterm birth affected by the timing of symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection? (AJOG) Medical masks versus N95 respirators for preventing COVID-19 among health care workers (ACP) Bebtelovimab fact sheet for providers (FDA) Alarming antibody evasion properties of rising SARS-CoV-2 BQ and XBB subvariants (bioRxiV) Paxlovid patient eligbiliity screening checklist (FDA) Real-world evidence of novel treatments for COVID-19 on mortality (OFID) Effectiveness and safety of extended thromboprophylaxis in post-discharge patients with COVID-19 (Thrombosis Research) Contribute to our MicrobeTV fundraiser at PWB Dr. Griffin’s treatment guide (pdf) Letters read on TWiV 959 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 959 recorded on December 1st, 2022.
0:21.6	I'm Vincent Racken Yellow and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses.
0:25.8	Joining me today from New York, Daniel Griffin.
0:29.6	Hello, everybody.
0:31.1	Well, Daniel, it's the last month of 2022.
0:35.4	What can we expect with infectious diseases?
0:38.2	You know, I was at the hospital today after seeing patients in the office till about 1 o'clock.
0:44.0	And one of the people there, one of my colleagues asked me, so what's new?
0:50.9	I said, well,
0:52.8	you know, you have any good news to share?
0:56.8	I said, the only good news is if you're an ID doc and you were worried, you'd be bored.
1:01.5	Yeah, so as people know, we are, well, there's a lot going on.
1:05.1	So let's get into it.
1:06.7	I will, this one will be, you know, sort of our slightly on the longer side.
1:10.7	But then for the next couple weeks, I'm going to try to keep them short.
1:14.0	Mainly for bandwidth issues, Vincent, because I'm going to be uploading these from,
1:18.4	you know, Ugandan, who knows what the bandwidth will be.
1:21.2	How many weeks are you going to be there?
1:23.1	Yeah, it's offensive. My wife is listening.
1:24.9	My wife is listening two weeks.
1:26.4	If anyone else is listening a little more than two and a half.
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