About this episode

Daniel Griffin provides a clinical update on various viral outbreaks and vaccine recommendations alongside Vincent Racaniello.

In his weekly clinical update, Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are disheartened by the suggested change in federal vaccine recommendations, how Florida rolled back 4 childhood vaccine school requirements, results from a clinical trial suggesting that IPV can be used for outbreak control in IPV only countries, the continued national cyclosporiasis and screwworm outbreaks, size of the Ebola outbreak in the Congo, the death of 2 children in Pennsylvania from measles and the economic cost of the measles outbreak before Dr. Griffin deep dives into the use of monoclonal antibodies and remdesivir to treat Bundibugyo virus infection, measles outbreak, recent statistics RSV, influenza, SARS-CoV-2 infections, access and how 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 Request for Information: Categories Used in Federal Vaccine Recommendations and the Role of Shared Clinical Decision-Making (Federal Register) HHS Seeks…

People in this episode

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Daniel Griffin

Topics covered

• vaccine recommendations
• childhood vaccines
• clinical trials
• viral outbreaks
• monoclonal antibodies
• long COVID-19

Keywords

• vaccine recommendations
• IPV
• measles outbreak
• Ebola
• long COVID-19
• monoclonal antibodies
• remdesivir
• cyclosporiasis
• screwworm
• Paxlovid

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: US Department of Health and Human Services, International Society for Infectious Diseases

Products: Paxlovid, remdesivir, monoclonal antibodies

Places: Florida, Pennsylvania, Congo

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