About this episode

Dr. Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello discuss the current state of global public health and various infectious diseases in this clinical update episode.

In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are perplexed by the state of global public health as malaria, cholera and other infectious diseases are spread by civil warfare, the lack of manpower at the CDC to implement Congressional health programs, the first cancer mRNA vaccine resulting from a Merck and Moderna collaboration, how cyclosporiasis and screwworm outbreaks continue, FDA approval of new drugs against screwworm and critical policy decisions to control the Ebola outbreak in the Congo, before Dr. Griffin deep dives into the measles outbreak, recent statistics on RSV, influenza, SARS-CoV-2 infections and the drop in vaccination rates in the US, how schools are the source of measles infection, how vaccines only prevent severe disease not transmission as trafficking of measles on vaccinated people begins to be acknowledged, to access and pay for Paxlovid, what to know about the mRNA flu vaccine, where to go for answers about long COVID-19, clinical guidelines for treating long COVID, three myths of respiratory disease and contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research. Subscribe (free)…

People in this episode

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Daniel Griffin

Topics covered

• global public health
• infectious diseases
• vaccination rates
• clinical guidelines
• long COVID
• malaria
• cholera

Keywords

• malaria
• cholera
• Ebola
• measles
• vaccination
• long COVID
• RSV
• influenza
• SARS-CoV-2
• Paxlovid

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CDC, Merck, Moderna

Products: Paxlovid, mRNA flu vaccine

Places: Congo, Myanmar

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