In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses guidance on measles during the summer travel season, the Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines on the diagnosis of COVID-19: antigen testing, SARS-CoV-2 variants and age-dependent infection rates among household and nonhousehold contacts, effect of COVID-19 vaccination on household transmission of SARS-COV-2 in the Omicron era, incidence of myopericarditis after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination, intrinsic and effective severity of COVID-19 cases infected with the ancestral strain and Omicron BA.2 variant in Hong Kong, safety, immunogenicity and protection of heterologous boost with an aerosolized Ad5-nCoV after two-dose inactivated COVID-19 vaccines in adults, awake prone positioning for non-intubated patients with COVID-19-related acute hypoxic respiratory failure, melatonin effects on sleep quality of COVID-19 patients, female reproductive health impacts of Long COVID and associated illnesses including ME/CFS, POTS, and connective tissue disorders, and incident autoimmune diseases in association with SARS-CoV-2 infection.

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Links for this episode

• Guidance on measles during the summer travel season (CDC)
• Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines on the diagnosis of COVID-19 (CID)
• SARS-CoV-2 variants and infection rates among household and nonhousehold contacts (CDC)
• Effect of COVID-19 vaccination on household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the Omicron era (IJID)
• Incidence of myopericarditis after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination (Science Direct)
• Intrinsic and effective severity of COVID-19 cases infected with the ancestral strain and Omicron BA.2 variant (JID)
• Safety, immunogenicity and protection of heterologous boost with Ad5-nCoV after two-dose inactivated COVID-19 vaccines (The Lancet)
• Awake prone positioning for non-intubated patients with COVID-19-related acute hypoxic respiratory failure (BMC)
• Melatonin effects on sleep quality of COVID-19 patients (BMJ)
• Female reproductive health impacts of Long COVID and associated illnesses (FRS)
• Incident autoimmune diseases in association with SARS-CoV-2 infection (CR)
• Contribute to our FIMRC fundraiser at PWB
• Letters read on TWiV 1020
• Dr. Griffin’s COVID treatment summary (pdf)
• Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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