Episode Details

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses current and past outbreaks of “vaccine” preventable diseases including whooping cough, polio and measles with your co-host Vincent Racaniello and the recent increase in norovirus outbreaks, if alcohol-based hand sanitizers aid in the spread of norovirus before reviewing the recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, where to find PEMGARDA, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center’s long COVID treatment center, if “long COVID” like symptoms occurs after influenza and how long COVID may associate with neurological complicates that control verbal memory.

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• Notable infectious diseases in US (CDC NNDSS)
• Get your Tdap: whooping cough case increase (California Department of Public Health)
• Resurgence of measles among preschool aged children 1989-1991 (CDC: MMWR)
• Adults vulnerable to ‘childhood’ diseases  (NY Times)
• Pivotal decision that led to a resurgence of polio (NY Times)
• Can polio return due to lagging vaccination? (NY Times)
• NoroSTAT Data Table (CDC Norovirus)
• The discovery of the 27-nm Norwalk virus: an historic perspective (JID)
• Why the “Ferrari of viruses” is surging through the northern hemisphere (Science)
• Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• Norovirus at Chipotle, $25million food fine (NY Times)
• Chipotle food issues: 2015 settlement with the justice department  (Chipotle News)
• Purcel anyone? Hand sanitizers increase norovirus risk? (Canadian Medical Association Journal)
• Visualization by immune electron microscopy of a 27nm particle associated with acute infectious nonbacterial gastroenteritis (Journal of Virology)
• Winter vomiting disease (JID)
• ACIP: expanded recommendations for pneumococcal conjugate vaccines(CDC: M