In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello bemoan the attack on science within the US, salt water controls for vaccines, return to 1938 technology for flu vaccines, mRNA vaccines as “bioweapons”, rise in pertussis, benefits of the shingles vaccine and reduced dementia occurrence, and growing measles outbreak globally before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, the May 22 VRBPAC COVID-19 vaccine,  meeting, where to find PEMGARDA, return to antibiotic treatment for respiratory viral diseases, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center’s 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.

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• Saline placebo control testing for new vaccines….not good chemistry! (Washington Post)
• 1940s innovation: HHS, NIH Launch Next-Generation Universal Vaccine Platform for Pandemic-Prone Viruses(US Department of Health and Human Services)
• WHAT! Minnesota Bill Against Vaccines Promotes Disinformation (Medscape Medical News) )
• Guns= fine….mRNA =mRNA Bioweapons Prohibition Act; mRNA injections and products designated as weapons of mass destruction, and mRNA injections and products prohibited. (Minnesota Legislature)
• Bioweapons of massive destruction mNRA not bombs or drones….but mRNA! (Minnesota Legislature)
• 2024 Provisional pertussis surveillance report (CDC)
• Pertussis cases by year 1922-2023 (CDC: Whooping cough (pertussis))
• Deaths by pertussis: 6 children under a year old (CDC)
• Pertussis (WHO)
• Symptoms of pertussis (CDC Whooping Cough (Pertussis)
• With whooping cough cases on the rise, a doctor explains how to protect yourself and others (CNN)
• Live zoster vaccination and cardiovascular outcomes (European Heath Journal)
• Shingles vaccine recipients see lower cardiac event risk (CIDRAP)
• H5 Bird Flu: Current Situation (CDC: Avian Influenza Bird flu)
• Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Rubeola)
• Measles 800 in Texas…. (Texas Health and Human Services)
• 2025 Measles outbreak guidance (New Mexico Health)
• Measles and rubella weekly monitoring report: (Government of Canada)
• Measles vaccine recommendations from NYP (jpg) 
• 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))
• 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)
• Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView)
• Respiratory virus activity levels (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• CDC reports 216 child deaths this flu season (AP News)
• Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView)
• FDA-CDC-DOD: 2025-2046 influenza vaccine composition (FDA)
• RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection)
• Impact of Nirsevimab on RSV and Non-RSV Severe Respiratory Infections in Hospitalized Infants (Influenza and other respiratory viruses)
• Hospital admissions of respiratory infections in infants plunge with nirsevimab RSV antibody(CIDRAP)
• Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• COVID-19 deaths (CDC)
• COVID-19 national and regional trends (CDC)
• COVID-19 variant tracker (CDC)
• SARS-CoV-2 genomes galore (Nextstrain)
• Early effectiveness of the BNT162b2 KP.2 vaccine against COVID-19 in the US Veterans Affairs Healthcare System (Nature Commications)
• Interim Clinical Considerations for Use of COVID-19 Vaccines in the United States (CDC: COVID-19)
• COVID-19 vaccine VRBPAC May 22 (FDA)
• 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)
• Infectious Disease Society guidelines for treatment and management (ID Society)
• Time to antiviral treatment in mild–moderate COVID-19 in the emergency department(Internal and Emergency Medicine)
• Delays in COVID antiviral receipt raised risk of poor outcomes after ED visits by 18%, data suggest(CIDRAP)
• Molnupiravir safety and efficacy (JMV)
• Convalescent plasma recommendation for immunocompromised (ID Society)
• What to do when sick with a respiratory virus (CDC)
• When your healthcare provider is infected/exposed with SARS-CoV-2 (CDC)
• Managing healthcare staffing shortages (CDC)
• Virus = Bacteria ? National Trends in Antibiotic Prescribing for Adults Hospitalized With Coronavirus Disease 2019 and Other Viral Respiratory Infections (OFID)
• Steroids, dexamethasone at the right time (OFD)
• 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
• Short and long-term trajectories of the post COVID-19 condition (BMJ Infectious Diseases)
• Prevalence of Persistent Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Abnormalities on PET/MRI and DECT Imaging in Long COVID Patients (Journal of Nuclear Medicine)
• Long-COVID patients show signs of inflammation on PET/ MRI scans(CIDRAP)
• Reaching out to US house representative
• Letters read on TWiV 1216
• Dr. Griffin’s COVID treatment summary (pdf)
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

From the 2024 International Hepatitis B virus meeting in Chicago IL, Rich Condit speaks with Thomas Tu about his experiences as a both a HepB scientist and patient.

Host: Rich Condit

Guest: Thomas Tu

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• Hepatitis B Foundation
• Tu Laboratory
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TWiV reviews universal vaccine initiative at NIAID, shut down of the Integrated Research Facility at Ft. Detrick, modeling the reemergence of infectious diseases as vaccination rates drop, and bacterial outer membrane vesicles bound to bacteriophages modulate neutrophil responses to bacterial infection.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Jolene Ramsey

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• Support science education at MicrobeTV
• ASV 2025
• Paul has Measles (YouTube, virology blog)
• Universal vaccine project (NIAID, CIDRAP)
• Measles update (US, Texas)
• Integrated Research Lab closed (Telegraph)
• Modeling reemergence of infectious diseases (JAMA)
• Outer membrane vesicles attached to phage (Front Cell Inf Micro)
• Pf phage review (Front Immunol)
• Letters read on TWiV 1215
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

Weekly Picks

Alan – A Paradise Built in Hell, by Rebecca Solnit (and here’s my review of it) Jolene – Virology course student communication projects, Spring 2025 Vincent – Vaccine Education Center

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In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello bewail the attack on science within the US and withdrawal from the global health communities, association between the shingles vaccine and reduced dementia occurrence, ending of Uganda’s ebola outbreak, undermining effective responses to human bird flu infections, growing measles outbreak in the US and dire predictions of the return of vaccine preventable diseases including polio if vaccination rates continue to decline, before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections the WasterwaterScan dashboard, how HHS is undermining the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine, if Paxlovid reduces stroke, where to find PEMGARDA, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center’s 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.

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• Lab animal RIFFing (NY Times)
• Herpes zoster vaccination and dementia occurrence(JAMA)
• The recombinant shingles vaccine is associated with lower risk of dementia (Nature Medicine)
• Uganda declares end to latest ebola outbreak (Reuters)
• Enhancing the response to avian influenza in the US and globally (LANCET: Regional Health-Americas)
• H5 Bird Flu: Current Situation (CDC: Avian Influenza Bird flu)
• Measles Update — United States, January 1–April 17, 2025 (CDC: MMWR)
• Measles in Europe……..but greater in the US (CIDRAP)
• Measles – Annual Epidemiological Report for 2024 (ECDC: European Center for Disease Prevention and Control)
• Measles (ECDC: European Center for Disease Prevention and Control)
• Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Rubeola)
• Measles 800 in Texas…. (Texas Health and Human Services)
• 2025 Measles outbreak guidance (New Mexico Health)
• On the precipice of disaster’: Measles may be endemic in 25 years if vaccine uptake stays low, model predicts (CIDRAP)
• Modeling Reemergence of Vaccine-Eliminated Infectious Diseases Under Declining Vaccination in the US (JAMA)
• Measles vaccine recommendations from NYP (jpg) 
• 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))
• 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)
• Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView)
• Respiratory virus activity levels (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• 200 children die from flu (CIDRAP)
• Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView)
• FDA-CDC-DOD: 2025-2046 influenza vaccine composition (FDA)
• RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection)
• Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• COVID-19 deaths (CDC)
• COVID-19 national and regional trends (CDC)
• COVID-19 variant tracker (CDC)
• SARS-CoV-2 genomes galore (Nextstrain)
• Health secretary RFK Jr. declares certain vaccines have ‘never worked,’ flummoxing scientists…..what certain vaccines?(STAT News)
• More FDA uncertainty roils full approval for Novavax COVID vaccine (CIDRAP)
• FDA Punts on Major Covid-19 Vaccine Decision After Ouster of Top Official (WSJ)
• U.S. health officials inject new uncertainty into approval process for Covid boosters (STAT News)
• Interim Clinical Considerations for Use of COVID-19 Vaccines in the United States (CDC: COVID-19)
• 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)
• 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)
• When your healthcare provider is infected/exposed with SARS-CoV-2 (CDC)
• Managing healthcare staffing shortages (CDC)
• Steroids, dexamethasone at the right time (OFID)
• Anticoagulation guidelines (hematology.org)
• Into the Unknown: Practical Remdesivir Restriction in the Era of Widespread SARS-CoV-2 Seropositivity (CID)
• Tocilizumab and IVIG experience during the service follow-up in patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia(Rev Insti MedTrop Sao Paulo)
• Daniel Griffin’s evidence based medical practices for long COVID (OFID)
• Long COVID hotline (Columbia : Columbia University Irving Medical Center)
• The answers: Long COVID
• Risk of New-Onset Type 2 Diabetes Among Vaccinated Adults After Omicron or Delta Variant SARS-CoV-2 Infection(JAMA) Reaching out to US house representative
• Letters read on TWiV 1214
• Dr. Griffin’s COVID treatment summary (pdf)
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

From the 2024 International Hepatitis B virus meeting in Chicago IL, Rich Condit speaks with Chari Cohen about her work as President of the Hepatitis B Foundation.

Host: Rich Condit

Guest: Chari Cohen

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• Support science education at MicrobeTV
• Hepatitis B Foundation
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TWiV reviews new committee of experts to counter vaccine misinformation, resignation of NSF Director, dependence of immune response to rabies virus on the gut microbiome, and a nucleosome switch primes hepatitis B virus infection.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Angela Mingarelli

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• Support science education at MicrobeTV
• ASV 2025
• Committee of experts to counter vaccine misinformation (Science)
• NSF Director resigns (Science)
• Dependence of vaccine immune response on gut microbiome (Cell Host Microbe)
• Nucleosome switch primes HepB replication (Cell)
• Letters read on TWiV 1212
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

Weekly Picks

Angela – Wild chimpanzees filmed by scientists bonding over alcoholic fruit Rich – Malcolm Gladwell Revisionist History “The Joe Rogan Intervention” Vincent – Measles Misinformation Is on the Rise — and Americans Are Hearing It, Survey Finds

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello deplore the US’s withdrawal from the global health community for pandemic preparedness i.e. the universal avian flu vaccine, and undermining the use of routine childhood vaccinations for pertussis and measles, RFK’s autism registry, yellow fever outbreak in Colombia and world immunization week after discussing the squirrel as the reservoir host for mpox, before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections the WasterwaterScan dashboard, how immunity elicited by the RSV vaccine wanes in 3 years, if Paxlovid reduces stroke, where to find PEMGARDA, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center’s long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, if vaccination impacts long COVID and if long COVID were to become epidemic.

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• The American Public’s Disengagement With Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI): Considerations for Vaccination and Dietary Changes(American Public Health Association)
• New agreement geared toward universal avian flu vaccine (CIDRAP)
• Cambridge’s DIOSynVax and Singapore’s ACM Biolabs to advance pandemic-ready universal bird flu vaccine with international support (GlobeNewswire)
• Bird flu continues to spread among live poultry markets after shut down order  (CRAIN’S New York Business)
• Fire-footed rope squirrels (Funisciurus pyrropus) are a reservoir host of monkeypox virus (Orthopoxvirus monkeypox)(Research Square)
• It is a squirrel! An animal source of mpox emerges(Nature)
• Whooping cough spikes, especially among unvaccinated teens (NBC News)
• A February flu surge has arrived (NCB News)
• Pertussis Cases by Year (1922-2022)(CDC: Whooping cough (pertussis)))
• ‘Fighting to breathe’: Whooping cough surges as vaccination rate falters (NBC News)
• CDC cancels measles help for Texas schools amid staff layoffs (HealthDay)
• Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Rubeola)
• Measles in Texas…. (Texas Health and Human Services)
• Measles vaccine recommendations from NYP (jpg) 
• 2025 Measles outbreak guidance (New Mexico Health)
• 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))
• 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)
• RFK Jr.’s autism registry plan (Axios)
• RFK Jr’s autism study collecting Americans’ private medical records (Guardian)
• The public’s views on measles outbreaks and misinformation (KFF)
•  Colombia National Emergency: yellow fever cases (Gov.Co)
• World Immunization Week: polio eradiation?(GPEI)
• Influenza: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView)
• Respiratory virus activity levels (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• 200 children die from flu (CIDRAP)
• Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView)
• FDA-CDC-DOD: 2025-2046 influenza vaccine composition (FDA)
• RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection)
• Trial shows waning efficacy of RSV vaccine across 3 seasons in older adults(CIDRAP)
• Efficacy, safety, and immunogenicity of the AS01E-adjuvanted respiratory syncytial virus prefusion F protein vaccine (RSVPreF3 OA) (LANCET: Respiratory Medicine)
• Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• COVID-19 deaths (CDC)
• COVID-19 national and regional trends (CDC)
• COVID-19 variant tracker (CDC)
• SARS-CoV-2 genomes galore (Nextstrain)
• 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)
• Long-term stroke and mortality risk reduction associated with acute-phase paxlovid use in mild-to-moderate COVID-19(Journal of Medical Virology)
• 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)
• When your healthcare provider is infected/exposed with SARS-CoV-2 (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
• The effect of COVID-19 vaccination on the risk of persistent post–COVID-19 condition (JID)
• ORCHESTRA Delphi consensus: diagnostic and therapeutic management of Post-COVID-19 condition in vulnerable populations (CMI Clinical Microbiology and Infection)
• Political ideology and trust in scientists in the USA(Nature Human Behavior)
• Leading long COVID researcher fears it could become a national epidemic (Spectrum News NY1)
• Center for post COVID care (Mt. Sinai) Reaching out to US house representative
• Letters read on TWiV 1212
• Dr. Griffin’s COVID treatment summary (pdf)
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

From the 2024 International Hepatitis B virus meeting in Chicago IL, Rich Condit speaks with Stephan Urban about his career working on HBV and HDV, and his philanthropy.

Host: Rich Condit

Guest: Stephan Urban

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• Support science education at MicrobeTV
• ASV 2025
• Hepatitis delta: recent advances (Hepatology)
• Bulevirtide for HBV and HDV (Lancet Inf Dis)
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

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TWiV discusses the rising autism rate among children, RFK Jr.’s claim that autism ‘destroys lives’, receptor binding specificity of a bovine H5N1 influenza virus, and improved dengue subunit vaccine modified to form E protein dimers.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker

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• Support science education at MicrobeTV
• ASV 2025
• Rising autism rate among children (MMWR)
• RFK Jr. claims autism ‘destroys lives‘ (NY Times)
• Receptor binding specificity of bovine H5N1 virus (Nature)
• Bovine H5N1 binds poorly to human receptors (Nature)
• AJ Eisfeld et al reply (Nature)
• Mootant influenza H5N1 virus (TWiV 1131)
• Improved dengue 2 subunit vaccine (J Virol)
• Letters read on TWiV 1211
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

Weekly Picks

Brianne – Scientists detect signature of life on a distant planet, study suggests Rich – Hanlon’s Razor Alan – Baby colossal squid filmed in deep ocean Vincent – How the United States became a science superpower — and how quickly it could crumble

Listener Pick

John – Revisionist History: The RFK Jr. Problem

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In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello rue about the continuation of the gutting of the American public health infrastructure, the continuing measles outbreak, an unreported outbreak of deadly E.coli human infections, meningococcal disease before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, ACIP recommended changes in guidelines for the RSV and COVID-19 vaccines, reactogenicity differences between Novavax and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines, where to find PEMGARDA, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center’s long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, long COVID interventions, effects of long COVID in children and adolescents and a list of ongoing clinical trials for long COVID treatment.

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• Making America Healthy Again-purging of administrators at HHS (Politico)
• Making America Healthy Again-purging of data (Politico)
• Deep cuts of the federal government (NY Times)
• Cutting NIH, CDC and HHS promotes chronic disease research(Washington Post)
• Political ideology and trust in scientists in the USA(Nature Human Behavior)
• US political conservatives have deep, unbudging suspicion of science, survey suggests(CIDRAP)
• A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it(NBC News)
• Invasive meningococcal disease – Kingdom of Saudi Arabia(WHO)
• The essential guide to understanding the differences between hajj and umrah (Marhabahaji)
• Measles Vaccination: Know the Facts(ISDA: Infectious Diseases Society of America)
• Measles booster? (Washington Post)
• How to stop an outbreak…….fire the experts (Washington Post)
• Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Rubeola)
• Measles 159 in Texas…. (Texas Health and Human Services)
• 2025 Measles outbreak guidance (New Mexico Health)
• Measles and rubella weekly monitoring (Government of Canada)
• Measles vaccine recommendations from NYP (jpg)
• NAFMA: North American Free Measles agreement…..(NY Times)
• 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))
• Doctors’ talk measles (YouTube)
• 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)
• Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView)
• Respiratory virus activity levels (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• 200 children die from flu (CIDRAP)
• Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView)
• FDA-CDC-DOD: 2025-2046 influenza vaccine composition (FDA)
• RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection)
• ACIP votes to expand recommendation for Pfizer’sRSV vaccine Abrysvo® to include adults aged 50 to 59 at increased risk of disease (Pfizer)
• Respiratory syncytial virus and incidence of cardiovascular events: a nationwide self-controlled case series analysis (JACC Journals)
• Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• COVID-19 deaths (CDC)
• COVID-19 national and regional trends (CDC)
• COVID-19 variant tracker (CDC)
• SARS-CoV-2 genomes galore (Nextstrain)
• Comorbidities associated with different degrees of severity in children and young people hospitalized with acute COVID-19 (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)
• SHIELD-Utah study shows Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine induces lower reactogenicity symptoms compared to mRNA (Novavax)
• Interim clinical considerations for use of COVID-19 vaccines in the United States (CDC Vaccines & Immunizations)
• Novavax says its COVID vaccine produces fewer, milder reactions than Pfizer version(CIDRAP)
• US CDC advisers discuss narrower use of COVID-19 vaccines (Reuters)
• Where to get pemgarda (Pemgarda)
• EUA for the pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 (INVIYD)
• Infusions center (Prime Fusions)
• CDC Quarantine guidelines (CDC)
• NIH COVID-19 treatment guidelines (NIH)
• Drug interaction checker (University of Liverpool)
• 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)
• When your healthcare provider is infected/exposed with SARS-CoV-2 (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
• Kidney Function following COVID-19 in children and adolescents(JAMA Network Open)
• Cardiovascular post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 in children and adolescents: cohort study using electronic health records(Nature Communications)
• Great barrington declaration (gbdeclaration.org)
• Clinical trials:
• Effectiveness of transcranial direct current in patients with persistent COVID-19 with headaches and chronic pain.
• Home-based Brain Stimulation Treatment for Post-acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC)
• Acupuncture for post COVID-19 Condition (Long COVID) neuropsychiatric symptoms
• Pain relief with integrative medicine (prime)?: feasibility of acupuncture for long COVID
• Electro-acupuncture for long COVID neuropsychiatric symptoms
• Randomised study to investigate the effectiveness of acupuncture for the relief of long COIVD-19 related fatigue (ACU-COVID)
• Vagus stimulation in female long COVID patients.(Vagus)
• Stellate ganglion block with lidocaine for the treatment of COVID-19-induced parosmia (Stella)
• Therapeutic updates on long COVID: Where things stand 5 years later (ID Society)
• Reaching out to US house representative
• Letters read on TWiV 1210
• Dr. Griffin’s COVID treatment summary (pdf)
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

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