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In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin deep dives into the whooping cough epidemic and bird flu in big cats, and in conjunction with your host Vincent Racaniello discusses the recent case of paralytic poliomyelitis in Israel, measles outbreaks and HHS campaign for vaccine safety campaign before reviewing the recent statistics on SARS-CoV-2 infection, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, if the COVID mRNA vaccine is effective against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection and hospitalization in children, where to find PEMGARDA, information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center’s long COVID treatment center, how long COVID effects one’s activities, personality and neuropsychiatric symptoms.

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• Highest level of whooping cough cases in a decade (NBC News)
• Provisional pertussis surveillance report (CDC)
• Polio moves into Israel (Jerusalem Post)
• Polio today (GPEI)
• Measles- the let’s get real vaccination campaign (CDC)
• Measles fact sheet (CDC)
• Measles- near you (CDC)
• Let’s get real about childhood vaccines (HHS)
• The FACTS about childhood vaccines (HHS)
• Tigers and cougars dying from bird flu, oh my! (NY Times)
• US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• Weekly surveillance report: cliff notes (CDC FluView)
• Burden of all-cause mortality following Influenza-associated hospitalizations (CID)
• Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection)
• COVID-19 deaths (CDC)
• COVID-19 

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