In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello is shocked by COVID vaccine restrictions and uncertainties such as pharmacy stock, the ACIP meeting roster and whether it guidance is legal, 3 new ACIP members all anti-vaccine, ending of childhood vaccine mandates in Florida, the continued Legionnaire’s outbreak in Harlem, before Dr. Griffin deep dives into recent statistics on the measles epidemic, RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the Wasterwater Scan dashboard, Johns Hopkins measles tracker, cardia benefits of the influenza vaccine, presence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in breast milk following vaccination, the use of antiviral nasal sprays to treat COVID 19, whether or not the NB.1.8.1 should be included in the fall 2025 vaccines, where to find PEMGARDA, long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, and contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research.

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Links for this episode

• Can You Still Get the Covid Shot? (NY Times)
• Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (Federal Register)
• Cassidy Calls for Vaccine Committee Meeting to be Postponed Following CDC Departures(US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions)
• Catherine Stein (Brownstone Institute)
• CIP to review COVID, hep B, and MMRV vaccine recommendations at September meeting (CIDRAP)
• Kennedy plans to add new members to an influential vaccine advisory panel.
• (NY Times)
• Patricia Mazzei (NY Times)
• The Steep Cost of Ron DeSantis’s Vaccine Turnabout (NY Times)
• Florida Moves to End Vaccine Mandates for Schoolchildren(NY Times)
• Legionnaires’ Disease: In Harlem(NYC Health)
• Wastewater for measles (WasterWater Scan)
• Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Rubeola)
• Tracking Measles Cases in the U.S. (Johns Hopkins)
• Measles vaccine recommendations from NYP (jpg)
• Weekly measles and rubella monitoring (Government of Canada)
• Measles (WHO)
• Get the FACTS about measles (NY State Department of Health)
• Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola))
• Measles vaccine (CDC Measles (Rubeola))
• Presumptive evidence of measles immunity (CDC)
• Contraindications and precautions to measles vaccination (CDC)
• Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola))
• Adverse events associated with childhood vaccines: evidence bearing on causality (NLM)
• Measles Vaccination: Know the Facts (ISDA: Infectious Diseases Society of America)
• Deaths following vaccination: what does the evidence show (Vaccine)
• Influenza: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• Respiratory virus activity levels (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView)
• Prevention and Control of Seasonal Influenza with Vaccines: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices — United States, 2025–26 Influenza Season (CDC: MMWR)
• ACIP Recommendations Summary (CDC: Influenza (Flu))
• Flu vaccines show benefits for the heart in new studies (CIDRAP)
• Risk of Myocarditis or Pericarditis With High-Dose vs Standard-Dose Influenza Vaccine (JAMA: OPEN)
• High-Dose vs Standard-Dose Influenza Vaccine and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Older Adults (JAMA: Cardiology)
• Influenza vaccination to improve outco