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In his weekly clinical update during Ground hog week, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are back to discuss the measles outbreak in South Carolina, American Academy of Pediatrics vaccine recommendations and shingles vaccine and the reduction of dementia, then deep dives into recent statistics RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the Wastewater Scan dashboard, Johns Hopkins measles tracker, where to find PEMGARDA, how to access and pay for Paxlovid, estimated effectiveness of this year's COVID-19 vaccine, long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, long COVID in children, the potential benefits of metformin to reduce disease severity following SARS-CoV-2 infection in obese and overweight patients and contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research.

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• Grading the groundhogs (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
• Sand Mountain Sam predicts an early spring (News19)
• All About the AAP Recommended Immunization Schedule (healthychildren.org)
• Recommended Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedule: United States, 2026: Policy Statement (American Academy of Pediatrics: Pediatrics)
• Herpes zoster vaccination and incident dementia in Canada: an analysis of natural experiments (LANCET: Neurology)
• Detection of avian flu antibodies in Dutch dairy cow: ECDC risk assessment remains unchanged (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control)

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