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In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello discuss the continued Legionnaire’s outbreak in Harlem, invasive Asia longhorned tick and associated disease, potential Ebola outbreak in the Congo, Florida ending childhood vaccine mandates, before Dr. Griffin deep dives into recent statistics on the measles epidemic, RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the Wasterwater Scan dashboard, Johns Hopkins measles tracker, SARS-CoV-2 spillover into household/domestic dogs, real data demonstrating the benefits of COVID-19 vaccines, states that increase access to COVID-19 vaccines, effective and availability to PAXLOVID, where to find PEMGARDA, long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, the beginning of numerous long COVID clinical studies and contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research.

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• Legionnaires’ Disease: In Harlem (NYC Health)
• 2 dead, dozens sickened by Legionnaires’ disease in Westchester County: Officials (NBC News)
• Invasive longhorned tick found for 1st time in New England (AP News)
• First person bitten by east Asian longhorned tick (AP News)
• Invasive, disease-carrying tick found in Maine, the farthest northeast it has been spotted (AP News)
• Suspected cases rise in DR Congo Ebola outbreak (CIDRAP)
• Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (CDC: Travelers’ Health)
•  Patricia Mazzei (NY Times)
• Florida Moves to End Vaccine Mandates for Schoolchildren (NY Times)

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