In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin briefly discusses the E.coli outbreak associated with onions from McDonald’s before deep diving into the announcement of Robert F Kennedy Jr. nomination for Secretary of Human and Health Services with highlights from MicrobeTV’s own Vincent Racaniello and Paul Offit (Beyond the Noise), the global measles outbreak, underutilization of influenza antivirals for children and teens, the $350 million 2025 order for mpox vaccination, before reviewing the recent statistics on SARS-CoV-2 infection, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, the effectiveness of N95 mask, the interplay between transmission and immunity for virus spread, where to find PEMGARDA, and translational science being conducted to understand long COVID including ongoing clinical trials, development of animal models and how sex may affect outcomes.

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Links for this episode

• Micky D’s onions linked to E. coli outbreak….another reason to not eat fast food (CDC)
• RFK Jr. series…..does he get anything right? (FactCheck.org)
• Salk polio vaccine : a calculated risk? (BMJ)
• How to conduct a controlled vaccine trial (American Journal Public Health Nations Health)
• Safety and efficacy of BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine (NEJM)
• Another Safety and efficacy study: mRNA-1273 SARS-CoV-2 vaccine (NEJM)
• …..SERIOUSLY! can’t RFK Jr get it correct? (FactCheck.org)
• ‘I’ve Come Home Today’: RFK Jr. (the Defenders Children’s Health Defense News & Views)
• Thank God for sensible people: Racaniello and Offit (microbeTV)
• RFK Jr. : MAN CAN’T YOU GET ANYTHING RIGHT? (Annenberg Public Policy Center: University of Pennsylvania)
• No harm in repeating Vinny! Thank God for sensible people: Racaniello and Offit (microbeTV)
• Did America think Trump-Kennedy through? …..really did you think this through? (microbeTV)
• Make American Healthy Again? ……I will have fries with that….SUPERSIZED! (Wall Street Journal)
• Keep the United States HEALTHY! (Safe Communities Coalition)
• Measles in the US (CDC Measles: Rubeola)
• The merry-go-around of measles (JID)
• It is a measles outbreak! (CDC Measles: Rubeola)
• 10.3 million measles infections in 2023….but no vaccine (WHO)
• Underutilization of influenza antiviral treatment among children and adolescents (CDC MMWR)
• Increase in influenza infection in children…..(CIDRAP)
• Influenza weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView)
• $340 million doses of mpox vaccine ordered for 2025 (Reuters)
• Mpox in NYC (JID)
• Respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• COVID-19 deaths (CDC)
• COVID-19 national and regional trends (CDC)
• Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• COVID-19 variant tracker (CDC)
• SARS-CoV-2 genomes galore (Nextstrain)
• N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirator use (JAMA Open Network)
• The Risk of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in Community Indoor Settings (JID)
• Lower levels of household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 VOC Omicron compared to Wild-type: an interplay between transmissibility and immune status (JID)
• Enhanced placental antibody transfer efficiency with longer interval between maternal RSV vaccination and birth (AJOG: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology)
• Where to get pemgarda (Pemgarda)
• EUA for the pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 (INVIYD)
• Fusion center near you….if in NY (Prime Fusions)
• CDC Quarantine guidelines (CDC)
• NIH COVID-19 treatment guidelines (NIH)
• Infectious Disease Society guidelines for treatment and management (ID Society)
• Perceptions and Barriers to Outpatient Antiviral Therapy for COVID-19 and Influenza as Observed by Infectious Disease Specialists (OFID)
• Drug–Drug Interactions with Nirmatrelvir/Ritonavir(Infectious Diseases and Therapy)
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