Episode Details

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello lament about the downfall of public health from “postponement” of the advisory committee on immunization practices and the FDA VRBPAC influenza strain selection meetings to how the communication pause prevents public notice of NIH study section meetings, and withdrawal of CDC promotions for the ‘flu vaccine’ before discussing the end of Ebola outbreak in Uganda, funding from Saudi Arabia for polio eradication, the continuing and growing measles outbreak in the US including misinformation from the Secretary of HHS, highly pathogenic avian flu and its economic effect, ie the cost of eggs before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, where to find PEMGARDA, an update of Paxlovid administration, 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 and FDA approval of adjuvanted Novovax COVID vaccine.

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• Phantom ACIP (CDC)
• Postponement of ACIP…..hummmm (STATNews)
• Influenza Strain selection VRBPAC cancelled (Reuters)
• How NIH funded research is impacted by government communication pause (NY Times)
• Can be reviewed but still no money (STATNews)
• Final push to end Ebola in Uganda (WHO Uganda)
• Saudi Arabia sponsors polio eradication effort  (GPEI))
•  $500 million from Saudi Arabia to immunize 370 million children against polio (CIDRAP)
• Measles 124 in Texas…. (Texas Health and Human Services)
• A Texas child who was not vaccinated has died of measles(AP News)
• The Measles book-(Apple Books)
• Measles vaccination protects against virus infection and other infections (Science)
• Measles deadliest sequelae (MEDPAGE TODAY)
• Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Measles)
• Unvaccinated Child Dies of Measles in Texas Outbreak(NY Times)
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