About this episode

Vincent Racaniello and Daniel Griffin discuss recent public health issues including the CDC director confirmation, pandemic preparedness, and various viral outbreaks.

In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are distressed by Erica Schwartz’ confirmation as CDC director, the GAO proposed pandemic preparedness plans, the national cyclospora outbreak and resulting two deaths, new screwworm and the scale of the Ebola outbreak in the Congo, and clear results from some of President Trump’s policies dismantling public health activites including water safety, before Dr. Griffin deep dives into the measles outbreak, recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the Wasterwater Scan dashboard, Johns Hopkins measles tracker, FDA approval of Moderna’s mRNA vaccine for seasonal flu, how to access and pay for Paxlovid, where to go for answers about long COVID-19, how SARS-CoV-2 infections may reactivate latent viral infections, particularly Aniello virus, and contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Senate confirms Erica Schwartz as CDC director (CIDRAP) PUBLIC HEALTH PREPAREDNESS: Experts Identified Actions to Improve Surveillance for Emerging Disease…

People in this episode

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Daniel Griffin

Topics covered

• clinical update
• public health
• pandemic preparedness
• viral infections
• vaccines
• measles outbreak
• COVID-19

Keywords

• CDC
• GAO
• Ebola
• measles
• RSV
• influenza
• SARS-CoV-2
• Moderna
• Paxlovid
• long COVID-19

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CDC, GAO, FDA, Johns Hopkins

Products: Moderna’s mRNA vaccine, Paxlovid

Places: Congo

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