About this episode

Vincent Racaniello and Daniel Griffin discuss recent changes in childhood vaccine recommendations and various viral outbreaks.

In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are troubled by the latest executive order changing routine childhood vaccine recommendations, the call for nominations to join the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices, West Nile virus transmission in South Carolina, a newly identified midge-transmitted virus sickening cattle, and development of a cold-chain free DPT vaccine, the national cyclospora and screwworm outbreaks,new screwworm and genomics of Ebola outbreak in the Congo, and use of a mismatch vaccine to combat the Bundibugyo virus outbreak 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, how to access and pay for Paxlovid, where to go for answers about long COVID-19, clinical guidelines for treating long COVID, 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 DELIVERING GOLD STANDARD CHILDHOOD VACCINE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR AMERICANS (Whitehouse) Trump signed an…

People in this episode

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Daniel Griffin

Topics covered

• childhood vaccines
• clinical guidelines
• viral outbreaks
• long COVID
• vaccine recommendations
• public health

Keywords

• childhood vaccines
• measles outbreak
• long COVID
• Paxlovid
• Ebola
• West Nile virus
• screwworm
• clinical guidelines

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices, Johns Hopkins, CIDRAP, CDC, Whitehouse

Products: Paxlovid

Places: South Carolina

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