Episode Details

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello deplore the US’s withdrawal from the global health community for pandemic preparedness i.e. the universal avian flu vaccine, and undermining the use of routine childhood vaccinations for pertussis and measles, RFK’s autism registry, yellow fever outbreak in Colombia and world immunization week after discussing the squirrel as the reservoir host for mpox, before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections the WasterwaterScan dashboard, how immunity elicited by the RSV vaccine wanes in 3 years, if Paxlovid reduces stroke, where to find PEMGARDA, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center’s long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, if vaccination impacts long COVID and if long COVID were to become epidemic.

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• The American Public’s Disengagement With Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI): Considerations for Vaccination and Dietary Changes(American Public Health Association)
• New agreement geared toward universal avian flu vaccine (CIDRAP)
• Cambridge’s DIOSynVax and Singapore’s ACM Biolabs to advance pandemic-ready universal bird flu vaccine with international support (GlobeNewswire)
• Bird flu continues to spread among live poultry markets after shut down order  (CRAIN’S New York Business)
• Fire-footed rope squirrels (Funisciurus pyrropus) are a reservoir host of monkeypox virus (Orthopoxvirus monkeypox)(Research Square)
• It is a squirrel! An animal source of mpox emerges(Nature)
• Whooping cough spikes, especially among unvaccinated teens (NBC News)
• A February flu surge has arrived (NCB News)
• Pertussis Cases by Year (1922-2022)(CDC: Whooping cough (pertussis)))
• ‘Fighting to breathe’: Whooping cough surges as vaccination rate falters (NBC News)
• CDC cancels measles help for Texas