Episode Details

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses Dr. Fauci’s case of West Nile virus, polio vaccine campaign develops in Gaza, disease that associates with Oropouche virus, mpox: vaccines, clinical trial for mpox antiviral and the WHO strategic preparedness and response plan before reviewing the recent statistics on SARS-CoV-2 infection, how to obtain free COVID tests, EUA for updated Novavax COVID vaccine, ISDA support of and where to find PEMGARDA, breakthrough infections when administering PEMGARDA, when to use convalescent plasma, what do when healthcare workers succumb to SARS-CoV-2 infection, if nirmatrelvir/ritonavir is effective at preventing hospitalization of high risk patients, incidence of mental illness in the vaccinated and unvaccinated, the effect of amubarvimab/romlusevimab on long COVID outcome, having an evidence based approach to long COVID and how fibrin drives thromboinflammation and neuropathology in COVID-19.

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• Fauci recovering at home from West Nile Virus infection (STAT News)
• Gaza: poliovirus RNA in sewage water (GPEI)
• Bombs and polio…..cease fire, Oh my!  (Guardian)
• The variant type 2 poliovirus in Gaza  (United Nations: The Question of Palestine)
• 25 years polio free?  (Facebook)
• 2 doses of nOPV2= 1.2M vaccines=640,000 children (CNN)
• More polio……India, two-year-old child in Tikrikilla, Meghalaya (Business Standard)
• Sloth fever……Oropouche virus (USA Today)
• Oropouche virus disease import into US (MMWR)
• Gabon’s first case of mpox (CIDRAP)
• Declaration of mpox (Gabonese Republic Ministry of Health and Social Affairs)
• What about vaccines? (Bavarian Nordic)
• LC16 replicating smallpox vaccine (WHO)
• Historical smallpox vaccination against m